385, Lot: 406. Estimate $200. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. After 211 BC. Æ Sextans (17mm, 3.93 g, 6h). Second Punic War half-weight, overstrike series. Mint in Sardinia. Head of Mercury right, wearing petasus; • • (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; ROMA above; •• (mark of value) below. Crawford 56/6 var. (full weight, not overstruck); Sydenham –; Type as RBW 213; McCabe Group H1. Good VF, brown patina with touches of green.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex RBW Collection duplicate.

Cr. 56/6 variety, half-weight anonymous sextans. McCabe (Essays Russo, 2013) pp. 175-180, type H1, obverse and reverse die match to coin H1.Sx.6, which shows clear overstrike evidence, thus this coin is most likely a Sardinian or Sicilian Second Punic War overstrike. [A. McCabe]