276, Lot: 348. Estimate $100. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and Eppius. 47- Spring 46 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.11 g, 6h). Military mint traveling with Scipio in Africa. Marcus Eppius, legate of the camp treasury. Head of Africa right, wearing elephant skin headdress; stalk of grain before; 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 50a. Fine, toned, minor porosity.

From the Collection of Dick Schultz.