436, Lot: 414. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-208 BC. Æ Sextans (19mm, 5.48 g, 2h). Corn-ear and KA series. Mint in Sicily. Draped bust of Mercury right, wearing winged petasus; • • (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; grain ear above, KA (ligate) to right, ROMA below. Crawford 69/6a; Sydenham 310d; Type as RBW 293. VF, brown surfaces with traces of green.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex English Amateur Scholar Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 92, Part II, 24 May 2016), lot 1555 (with collector’s ticket dated April 1988).

Overstrike, likely on Poseidon/Ornamental trident or another Syracusan issue, see various British Museum RRC 69 types, all where identifiable struck on Syracuse types. There seems to be two parallel lines running through the prow on an 11pm-5pm axis, which would correspond with lines from a trident. [Andrew McCabe]