385, Lot: 411. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-208 BC. Æ Quadrans (20mm, 6.22 g, 2h). Mint in Luceria. Head of Hercules right, wearing lion’s skin; ••• (mark of value) behind / Prow of galley right; L to right, [••]• (mark of value) below. Crawford 97/26; Sydenham 304c; Type as RBW 415; Unpublished overstrike. VF, brown surfaces, light porosity, flan split.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection, purchased from Marcantina, 2009.

97/26 Luceria L overstrike quadrans. There is a characteristic die break across the chin that is seen on other specimens from this obverse die; the reverse at the bottom of the prow appears to show this also to be an overstrike – the letters ..OMA presumably of ROMA can be seen, and above the prow can be seen a bulge that is likely the prow-stem of an undertype. For the undertype, we should seek a sextans or uncia with ROMA under the prow; there are no relevant anonymous or Luceria types, but several with symbols are possible, of which the most common is the prolific corn-ear and KA sextans, though the rather bulbous prow-stem undertype doesn’t fit the usual style of Cr. 69/6. Worth further exploration. This overstrike is not listed in RRC Table XVIII, which only lists a strike over 97/7b uncia that has ROMA above rather than under the prow. [A. McCabe]