446, Lot: 333. Estimate $150. Sold for $202. 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, 3.84 g, 4h). 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. VF, gray iridescent toning, flatly struck on the high points, a few light scratches and marks.

From the Dr. Charles Schulz Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions IX (7 December 1989), lot 349.