Interesting Overstrike

379, Lot: 326. Estimate $100. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Aurunculeius. 209 BC. Æ Sextans (21mm, 3.48 g, 6h). Sardinia mint. Head of Mercury right, wearing winged petasos; •• above / Prow of galley right; ROMA above, AVR monogram before, •• below. Crawford 65/6; Sydenham 162d; RBW 277. VF, dark green and brown patina. Overstruck on a Sardo-Punic bronze (Tanit/Bull). See Hersh, NC 1953, p. 40, 17 for similar.

From the RBW Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXIX (30 March 1994), lot 414.