385, Lot: 399. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Anonymous. After 211 BC. Æ Quadrans (23mm, 12.74 g, 3h). Uncertain mint. Head of Hercules right, wearing lion’s skin headdress; ••• (mark of value) to left / Prow of galley right; ••• (mark of value) below. Crawford 56/5; Sydenham 143c; Type as RBW 209; McCabe Group G3, G3.Qd.1 (this coin–illustrated on p. 169). VF, brown surfaces with traces of green.
From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Alessandra Brunetti 7 (24 November 2010), lot 431.
A heavy, well-struck example on a large flan. [A. McCabe]