Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 805. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $660. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 209 BC. Æ As (24.46 g, 9h). Uncial standard. Mint in southeast Italy. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) above, spearhead to right. Crawford 88/3b (citing only 1 specimen of two varieties in Paris); Russo, "Unpublished Roman Republican Bronze Coins," in Essays Hersh, p. 143, 49; Sydenham 224 var. (spearhead above). VF, dark brown and gray patina, an area of red on obverse, areas of minor roughness. Extremely rare.

From Collection V.C. Ex Numismatic Ars Classica P (12 May 2005), lot 1661.