Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 582. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-208 BC. AV 60 Asses (3.36 g, 3h). Rome mint. Bearded head of Mars right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; LX (mark of value) behind / ROMA, eagle standing right, wings spread, on thunderbolt. Crawford 44/2; Bahrfeldt 4a; Sydenham 226; Kestner 285; BMCRR Rome 185-186. EF.

From Collection C.G. Ex Triton V (15 January 2002), lot 1813.

Rome's military successes in the later stages of the Second Punic War, especially the capture and sack of Syracuse, enabled her to undertake a fundamental reform of the coinage in 211 BC. This included the introduction of a series of three small gold denominations valued at 60, 40, and 20 asses. The types were identical in each case: a bearded head of Mars, god of war, on the obverse, and an eagle on thunderbolt (representing Jupiter) on reverse. The issue extended over a period of about three years and Rome seems to have been the principal mint.