406, Lot: 646. Estimate $300. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 225-214 BC. AR Didrachm – Quadrigatus (24mm, 6.49 g, 7h). Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Janus; curved truncation / Jupiter, hurling thunderbolt and holding scepter, in galloping quadriga right driven by Victory; incuse ROMA in raised tablet below. Crawford 28/3; Sydenham 64a; RSC 23. VF, some minor roughness and scratches on the reverse, a few deposits.

From the B.H. Webb Collection; Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 151 (1 November 2006), lot 163.

The Janus head appears to be centered on a slightly raised disk, with a border of radiate lines. This does not seem to be a distorted strike of the normal beaded border, but a completely different style of edge treatment. No pieces with a similar border have been noted in the references.