279, Lot: 402. Estimate $150. Sold for $410. 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, 3.59 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Scipio in Africa. Small head of Africa right, wearing elephant's skin headdress; 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. VF, toned, some surface corrosion, a few light marks.

From the Bruce R. Brace Collection.