Two Overstruck on Oiniadai

364, Lot: 89. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 206-195 BC. Æ Triens (22mm, 5.77 g, 2h). Canusium mint. Helmeted head of Minerva right; four pellets above / Prow right; CA to right, four pellets below. Crawford 100/3; Sydenham 309c; RBW 450. VF, green patina, light chipping in areas. Overstruck on a “Zeus/man-headed bull” issue of Oiniadai, Akarnania (cf. BCD Akarnania 345-8), with traces of horns and ethnic visible by Minerva’s neck.

From the RBW Collection. Ex Goodman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 45, 18 March 1998), lot 1259.