The Pompeians. Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and Eppius. 47- Spring 46 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.67 g, 12h). 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, hand on hip, leaning on club draped with lion skin and set on rock. Crawford 461/1; CRI 44; Sydenham 1051; Caecilia 50; RBW 1605. Find patina, some roughness and scratches, edge marks, test cut on edge. Good VF.
From the Brian Holland Collection. Ex Saint Ludovico and Firth of Clyde Collections (Stack's, 22 April 2009), lot 1301.