314, Lot: 314. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Pompeians. Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and Eppius. 47- Spring 46 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.24 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Scipio in Africa. 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 50. Near VF, toned.
Ex Earl Victor Tuttle Collection (Bowers & Ruddy, 15 June 1981), lot 20.