443, Lot: 481. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and Eppius. 47- Spring 46 BC. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 3.82 g, 2h). Military mint traveling with Scipio in Africa. Head of Africa right, wearing elephant skin headdress; stalk of grain to right, 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 50a; Type as RBW 1605. EF, toned.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 78 (26 May 2014), lot 715; Numismatica Ars Classica 59 (4 April 2011), lot 825.