CNG 85, Lot: 745. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 225-217 BC. Æ Aes Grave Quadrans (38mm, 61.25 g, 12h). Libral standard. Rome mint. Head of Hercules left, wearing lion skin, on a raised disk / Prow of galley left; ••• (mark of value) below. Crawford 36/4; Thurlow & Vecchi 61; Haeberlin pl. 22, 15-16. VF, brown patina, traces of red and green. Pleasing style.

Ex Bradbury K. Thurlow Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXIV, 9 December 1992), lot 55.