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<p>[QUOTE="Scipio, post: 7380413, member: 103869"][ATTACH=full]1285121[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1285122[/ATTACH] Personification of Africa with elephant headdress...</p><p><b>Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and Eppius. Silver Denarius, 47-46 BC.</b>Military mint traveling with Scipio in Africa. Q METELL SCIPIO IMP, head of Africa right, wearing elephant' skin headdress; in right field, grain stalk; below, plow. Reverse:EPPIVS LEG F C, Hercules standing facing, resting hand on hip and leaning on club draped with lion's skin and set on rock. Crawford 461/1;</p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus Eppius was a Roman senator, who took an active part in favor of Pompey at the outbreak of the civil war in 49 BC.</p><p>He was one of the legates of Quintus Metellus Scipio in the war of Africa, and was pardoned by Caesar with many others of his party after the battle of Thapsus. Later he seems to have gone to Spain and taken Sextus Pompey's war sides in 46 and 45, perhaps he died in the battle of Munda. The acronym FC is dissolved by Crawford in flandum curavit; another possibility is that it is to be connected to the title of legate, such as Legatus Fisci Castrensi.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Scipio, post: 7380413, member: 103869"][ATTACH=full]1285121[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1285122[/ATTACH] Personification of Africa with elephant headdress... [B]Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and Eppius. Silver Denarius, 47-46 BC.[/B]Military mint traveling with Scipio in Africa. Q METELL SCIPIO IMP, head of Africa right, wearing elephant' skin headdress; in right field, grain stalk; below, plow. Reverse:EPPIVS LEG F C, Hercules standing facing, resting hand on hip and leaning on club draped with lion's skin and set on rock. Crawford 461/1; Marcus Eppius was a Roman senator, who took an active part in favor of Pompey at the outbreak of the civil war in 49 BC. He was one of the legates of Quintus Metellus Scipio in the war of Africa, and was pardoned by Caesar with many others of his party after the battle of Thapsus. Later he seems to have gone to Spain and taken Sextus Pompey's war sides in 46 and 45, perhaps he died in the battle of Munda. The acronym FC is dissolved by Crawford in flandum curavit; another possibility is that it is to be connected to the title of legate, such as Legatus Fisci Castrensi.[/QUOTE]
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