Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 789. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $330. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-208 BC. Æ As (50.86 g, 3h). Sextantal standard (heavy series). Mint in central Italy. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; above, I (mark of value) and Victory advancing right, holding wreath. Crawford 61/2 (citing 13 specimens in Paris); Sydenham 148. VF, green patina, areas of red, some earthen deposits, minor roughness. Struck on a broad, heavy flan.

From Collection V.C.