436, Lot: 398. Estimate $200. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 225-217 BC. Æ Aes Grave Quadrans (35.5mm, 56.70 g, 12h). Prow left, libral cast series. Rome mint. Head of Hercules left, wearing lion skin, on a raised disk / Prow of galley left; ••• (mark of value) below. Crawford 36/4; ICC 91; HN Italy 340; RBW –. Good Fine/VF, brown and tan surfaces with areas of green highlights/deposits. Very rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 183 (20 September 1994), lot 802; Nascia Kunst und Münzen 23 (4 February 1982), lot 160 (CHF 600 estimate).

A very rare type, missing from most classic sales and where it is present, generally at least as worn as this example. [Andrew McCabe]