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Lot 3488 SESSION 11 (9.30am Thursday) Roman Republic
Estimate $180
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SOLD $200
L. POMPONIUS MOLO, (c.97 B.C.), silver denarius, Rome mint, (3.794 grams), obv. Apollo laureate head to right, L.POMPON Q.F. behind, MOLO before, rev. Numa Pompilius standing to right before altar about to sacrifice a goat held by youth, NVMA POMPIL ligated in exergue, (S.214, Cr.334/1, Syd.607, Pomponia 6). Very fine and rare.
30 obverse dies were used by this magistrate on his coinage according to Crawford.
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