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Electronic Auction 487  10 Mar 2021
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Lot 451

Estimate: 300 USD
Price realized: 400 USD
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The Pompeians. Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and Eppius. 47- Spring 46 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.87 g, 8h). 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; RBW 1605. Lightly toned, a few light scratches, small banker's mark on obverse. Good VF.

From the Lampasas Collection. Ex Andrew McCabe Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 477, 23 September 2020), lot 402; Numismatica Ars Classica 52 (7 October 2009), lot 880.
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