Nomos AG > obolos 14 | Auction date: 15 December 2019 |
Lot number: 329 | |
Lot description: BYZACIUM. Hadrumentum. Augustus, 27 BC-AD 14. (Bronze, 22.5 mm, 6.29 g, 11 h), under Africanus Fabius Maximus, proconsul and septemvir epulonum, and C. Livineius Gallus, quaestor propraetore, 6-5 BC. [AFR FA MA]X COS PROCOS VII VIR [EPVLO] Bare head of Fabius Africanus to right. Rev. C LIV[IN GALL]VS Q PRO PR Elephant advancing to left, trampling on serpent. MAA 92. RPC 781. Very rare and with an important private portrait of Augustan date. One of about a dozen known examples, of which 9 are cited in the RPC. Struck off-center and with a flan fault on the reverse, otherwise, very fine. Starting Price: 200 CHF |