331, Lot: 220. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BYZACIUM, Hadrumentum. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ (23mm, 6.45 g, 12h). Africanus Fabius Maximus, proconsul and septemvir epulonum; C. Livineius Gallus, quaestor propraetore. Struck 6-5 BC. Bare head of Fabius Africanus right / Elephant advancing left, trampling on serpent. RPC 781; MAA 92. Fine, brown surfaces, a few pits.

Africanus Fabius Maximus, who was consul in 10 BC along with Iullus Antonius, second son of the triumvir and his first wife, Fulvia. was the brother of Paullus Fabius Maximus, consul of the previous year, whose portrait also appears on provincial coinage while serving as proconsul of Asia. Africanus was himself proconsul of Africa in 6-5 BC and also served as a member of the septemviri epulonum, one of the offices normally held as part of the cursus honorum.