★ Exceptionally Complete for the Issue ★

Sextus Pompey AR Denarius. Uncertain mint in Sicily (Catania?), 42-40 BC. Bare head of Pompey Magnus right; capis behind, lituus before; MAG•PIVS•IMP•ITER around / Neptune standing left, holding aplustre and with foot on prow, between the Catanaean brothers, each carrying a parent on their shoulders; PRÆF above, CLAS•ET•ORÆ•MARIT•EX•S•C in two lines in exergue. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; BMCRR Sicily 7; RSC 17; FFC 26 (this coin). 3.82g, 20mm, 9h.

Good Extremely Fine; beautiful old cabinet tone, exceptionally complete for the issue.

This coin published in Fernández, Fernández & Calicó, Catálogo Monográfico de los Denarios de la República Romana (2002);
Ex Alba Longa Collection;
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 15, 18 May 1999, lot 224.