424, Lot: 332. Estimate $100. 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 (18.5mm, 3.88 g, 9h). Military mint traveling with Scipio in Africa. Head of Africa right, wearing elephant’s skin headdress; stalk of grain to right, plow below / Hercules standing facing, with hand on hip, leaning on club draped with lion’s skin and set on rock. Crawford 461/1; CRI 44; Sydenham 1051; Caecilia 50a; RBW 1605. Near VF, toned.