Watch List notes:

The Pompeians. Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and Eppius. 47- Spring 46 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.97 g, 7h). 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 50. Choice EF, toned, lustrous.


From the Collection of a Director. Ex Aufhäuser 12 (1 October 1996), lot 380; Leu 30 (28 April 1982), lot 258.