385, Lot: 395. Estimate $150. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 214-212 BC. Æ Sextans (26mm, 14.17 g, 9h). Luceria mint. Head of Mercury right, wearing petasos; • • (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; •L• (mark of value) below. Crawford 43/4; Sydenham 128; Type as RBW 155. VF, rough black surfaces.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Gibboni Collection (Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 19 (16 May 2006), lot 504.

Note the style of the prow on this coin, together with its flan shape – concave on the reverse – matches the next lot (unpublished Luceria uncia type). [A. McCabe]