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Scipio Africanus
Silver coin from Carthago Nova, believed to be a portrait of Scipio Africanus the Elder; in the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, National Museum, Copenhagen.
Scipio Africanus was born in 236 BCE and died in 183 BCE in Liternum, Campania (modern-day Patria, Italy).1