294, Lot: 176. Estimate $300. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 225-214 BC. AR Didrachm – Quadrigatus (23mm, 6.68 g, 6h). Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Janus / Jupiter, hurling thunderbolt and holding scepter, in quadriga right driven by Victory; ROMA incuse on raised tablet. Crawford 28/3; Sydenham 64a; RSC 23. VF, toned, flan flaw on obverse, area of deposit on reverse.

Ex Robert and Julius Diez Collection (Lanz 151, 30 June 2011), lot 215; purchased from K. Schild, 1939.