408, Lot: 372. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. After 211 BC. Æ Uncia (15mm, 2.22 g, 12h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; • (mark of value) behind / Prow of galley right; • (mark of value) below. Crawford 56/7; Sydenham 143e; Type as RBW 215; McCabe Group H1 (Essays Russo, 2013) pp. 175-180, figure H1.Un.1 (this coin). VF, brown surfaces with touches of green. Attractive.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Artemide Aste XXIX (26 June 2010), lot 158.

This small and anomalous uncia issue is known from only one die pair; by size, weight, and style it corresponds with the generally overstruck Sardinian or Sicilian half weight (one sixteenth ounce standard) emergency issues in the middle of the Second Punic War. [Andrew McCabe]