436, Lot: 416. Estimate $150. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-210 BC. Æ As (32.5mm, 38.14 g, 5h). H series. Mint in southeast Italy. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) above, H before, ROMA below. Crawford 85/2; Sydenham 175; Type as RBW 352. Near VF, brown surfaces with touches of red and green.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex RBW Collection Duplicate; purchased by him from Aes Rude Titano 34 (24 June 1988), lot 49 (hammer £It.220,000).

Compare to the RBW H series denominations: this coin has the prow style as per the semis and triens, RBW 353 and 354, whereas the RBW as, quadrans, and sextans, RBW 352, 355, and 356, have a different style more akin to the anchor and Q series. A third style akin to the series with ROMA monogram or V appears on the unpublished H above prow as from my collection (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/3416604807/). All these issues come from the same mint city, probably Venusia, (see my article “The Roman Bronze Coinage struck in Apulia and South East Italy in the Second Punic War,” in Proceedings XV International Numismatic Congress Taormina 2015), which dates and locates the bronzes of Apulia. In particular the issue with mintmark H may be a multi-year issue, given the links of various coins within to ROMA, Q, and V issues. [Andrew McCabe]