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Eppius / Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio
Eppius / Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio


Gens: Caecilia
Moneyer: Eppius / Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio
Date and mint: 47 BC/46 BC - Africa


Obverse: Bust of Africa, right, laureate and with elephant skin; To the right, Ear of wheat; behind, Plow. Dotted border.
Legend: Q METELL SCIPIO IMP

Reverse: Hercules standing, facing forward, with his right hand on his hip and his left arm resting on a mace covered with lion skin (the mace rests on rock). Dotted border.
Legend: EPPIVS LEG F C

Comment: All the coins of this character are minted in Africa, supposedly in Utica

Provenance: Numismatica Ars Classica (2012)
Price: 7,077
461/1
461/1
Image courtesy of: Numismatica Ars Classica

Other references

Crawford: 461/1
DR: 649
BMCRR (Grueber): Africa 10, 12
B (Babelon): Caecilia 50 Eppia 1
RSC (Seaby): Caecilia 50 y 50a Eppia 1
FFC (Fdez., Fdez., Calicó): 216, 217
RC / RCV (D. Sear): 1380
CRI (Sear Imperators) 49 - 27 BC: 44
CRR (Sydenham): 1051
Cal (Calicó): 291, 292
RBW: 1605
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