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Auction: 9008 - The John Marshall Collection, other Ancient, British, World Coins, Comm Medals & Books
Lot: 441

Sextus Pompey, AR Denarius, 3.92g, Sicily, 42-40 BC, bare head of Pompey the Great right, capis behind, lituus before, [mag] pivs imp iter, rev. praef clas et orae/[mar]it ex sc, Neptune, holding aplustre, his right foot on prow, standing left between the Catanaean brothers Anapias and Amphinomus running in opposite directions, carrying their parents on their shoulders (Cr. 511/3a; Syd. 1344; Sear, Imperators, 334), unusually full example, good very fine Estimate £ 700-900

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