61, Lot: 173. Estimate $100. Sold for $175. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio. 47-46 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.92 gm). Head of Africa, wearing elephant-skin headdress right; grain ear before and plow below / Hercules standing facing, leaning on lion skin and club. Crawford 461/1; Sydenham 1051; Caecilia 50a. Toned, near VF, some horn silver. Rare.

From the Tony Hardy Collection.