244, Lot: 385. Estimate $150. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

P. Plautius Hypsaeus. 57 BC. AR Denarius (16mm, 3.56 g, 10h). Military mint traveling with Scipio in Africa. Eppius, legate. Small head of Africa right, wearing elephant skin; stalk of grain before, plow below / Hercules standing facing, hand on hip, leaning on club draped with lion's skin and set on rock. Crawford 461/1; CRI 44; Sydenham 1051; Caecilia 50a. Near VF, porous.