379, Lot: 330. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Anonymous. 189-180 BC. Æ Quadrans (22mm, 9.28 g, 5h). Rome mint. Head of Hercules right, wearing lion skin; ••• (mark of value) behind / Prow of galley right; [•••] (mark of value) to right, aquila and wreath above. Crawford 141/5a; Sydenham 346c; RBW 627. Near VF, dark brown patina with light earthen highlights/deposits, flan cracks. Very rare issue.
From the RBW Collection, purchased from Urbinati, 17 June 1995.