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Auction 96  14-15 February 2017
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Lot 1988

Starting price: 1000 USD
Price realized: 1650 USD
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Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and Eppius. Silver Denarius (3.83 g), 47-46 BC. Military mint traveling with Scipio in Africa. Q METEL[L] SCIPIO IMP, head of Africa right, wearing elephant' skin headdress; in right field, grain stalk; below, plow. Reverse: EPPIVS LEG F C, Hercules standing facing, resting hand on hip and leaning on club draped with lion's skin and set on rock. Crawford 461/1; HCRI 44; Sydenham 1051; Caecilia 50. Delicately toned. Nearly Mint State. Estimate Value $1,000 - 1,500
From The Herbert & Aphrodite Rubin Collection; Purchased from an uncertain NFA auction in the 1970s-1980s, lot 287.
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