385, Lot: 416. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 206-200 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.44 g, 9h). Female head series. Uncertain mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) to left / The Dioscuri, each holding spear, on horseback right; below horses, female head right; ROMA in exergue. Crawford 127/1; Sydenham 277; Horatia 1; Type as RBW 578. VF, toned, a few deposits, thin flan crack. Very rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 49 (17 March 1999), lot 1233.

In “A Hoard of Cut Roman Republican Denarii from the Second Punic War” (Essays Witschonke, pp. 221-238), I noted it included early denarii up to Cr. 110, as well as several Cr. 125 VAR and Cr. 126 QLC types, but did not include types from Cr. 111 through 124. This Cr. 127 type, related by style and fabric to the VAR and QLC types, should therefore be dated late in the second Punic war, rather than just after the war as Crawford proposed. The weight of this coin is typical for an issue that is always struck light. [A. McCabe]