CNG 102, Lot: 772. Estimate $500. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BYZACIUM, Hadrumentum. Africanus Fabius Maximus. Proconsul, 6-5 BC. Æ (24mm, 6.33 g, 12h). C. Livineius Gallus, quaestor propraetore. AFR FA (MA)X COS PROCOS VII EPVLO, bare head of Africanus right / Elephant advancing left, trampling on serpent. MAA 92; SNG Copenhagen 66; RPC I 781. VF, green and brown patina, minor roughness. Rare.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Cederlind 155 (24 June 2010), no. 164.

Africanus Fabius Maximus was consul in 10 BC along with Iullus Antonius, and served as proconsul of Africa in 6-5 BC. He was also a member of the septemviri epulonum, one of the offices normally held as part of the cursus honorum. One of the four quattuor amplissima collegia originally held by Roman pontiffs, the septemviri epulonum were a collegium of seven men whose purpose was to arrange public banquets at various festivals and games held in Rome.