385, Lot: 393. Estimate $150. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 215-212 BC. Æ As (37mm, 45.36 g, 9h). Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; [I] (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right, with three almost parallel lines at keel; I (mark of value) above, ROMA below. Crawford –; Sydenham –; Type as RBW 118; McCabe Group A2. Near VF, brown surfaces, some roughness. Extremely rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection, purchased from Roma Numismatics, 2006.

Cr.41 struck bronze post-semilibral as, not in Crawford. McCabe (Essays Russo, 2013) pp.126-129 type A2; cf Russo (Essays Hersh, 1998) pp.139-140, obverse die 7 with reverse die 6. Extremely rare. [A. McCabe]