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Electronic Auction 408  25 Oct 2017
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Lot 432

Estimate: 200 USD
Price realized: 240 USD
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The Pompeians. Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and Eppius. 47- Spring 46 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.89 g, 6h). 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; Type as RBW 1605. Good VF, toned, some faint cleaning marks on the reverse.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular C.1 (February 1992), lot 55 (£220, with dated invoice).
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