Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1309. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $510. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BYZACENE, Hadrumentum. Fabius Africanus, Proconsul. 6-5 BC. Æ 24mm (6.88 gm, 6h). Bare head right / C LIVIN GALLVS Q PRO PR, elephant advancing left, trampling serpent. RPC I 781; MAA 92; SNG Copenhagen 66. VF, heavy brown and green patina. Rare. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

The reverse of this coin is based on the famous denarius of Julius Caesar, struck over four decades earlier.