400, Lot: 574. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 214 BC. Æ Semuncia (16mm, 3.69 g, 7h). Mint in Sicily. Head of Mercury right, wearing winged petasus / Prow of galley right. Cf. Crawford 42/5 var. (without grain ear); Sydenham –; RBW 148. Near VF, brown surfaces with earthen highlights/deposits.

Ex RBW Collection.

A rare variety that RBW included as part of the “Corn-ear (first) series” for stylistic and metrological reasons.