237, Lot: 340. Estimate $100. Sold for $104. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio. 47-46 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.82 g, 10h). Military mint traveling with Scipio in Africa. Eppius, legate. Small head of Africa right, wearing elephant skin; stalk of grain before, plow below / Hercules standing facing, hand on hip, leaning on club draped with lion's skin and set on rock. Crawford 461/1; CRI 44; Sydenham 1051; Caecilia 50a. Near VF, banker’s mark on obverse.

From the Collection of Professor L. Fontana.