364, Lot: 115. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Anonymous. 169-158 BC. Æ Quadrans (22mm, 5.75 g, 5h). Rome mint. Head of Hercules right, wearing lion’s skin; [three pellets] behind / Prow right; above, griffin standing right on hare’s head; three pellets to right. Crawford 182/5; Sydenham 284c; RBW 774 (this coin). VF, brown patina. Very rare, one of only two in CoinArchives.
From the RBW Collection (unsold in Numismatica Ars Classica 61, 5 October 2011, lot 770). Ex Aes Rude 60 (18 February 1995), lot 114.