CNG 100, Lot: 1810. Estimate $750. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and Eppius. 47- Spring 46 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.83 g, 10h). Military mint traveling with Scipio in Africa. Head of Africa right, wearing elephant skin headdress; stalk of grain to right, plow below / Hercules standing facing, with hand on hip, leaning on club draped with lion skin and set on rock. Crawford 461/1; CRI 44; Sydenham 1051; Caecilia 50. Near EF, attractively toned.

Ex Roma Electronic Auction 17 (25 April 2015), lot 534.