Second Punic War Lightweight Issue

327, Lot: 850. Estimate $100. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-206 BC. Æ Quadrans (21mm, 5.50 g, 5h). Second Punic War lightweight issue. Uncertain Sardinian, Sicilian, or non-Roman Italian mint. Head of Hercules right, wearing lion skin; three pellets (mark of value) to left / Prow right; three pellets (mark of value) below. McCabe Group H1.Qd.2; cf. Crawford 56/5 and 339/4a; cf. Sydenham 143c and 679c. Near VF, brown surfaces. Overstruck on an uncertain Punic or other issue.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.12152.