436, Lot: 418. Estimate $300. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-208 BC. AR Victoriatus (16mm, 2.97 g, 12h). CROT series. Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Jupiter right / Victory standing right, erecting trophy; [R]OMA in exergue. Cf. Crawford 92/1a; cf. Sydenham 120; cf. RSC 36b; cf. RBW 386. VF, toned, flatly struck in areas, areas of find patina. Extremely rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection, purchased from Peus Nachf., with old German collection ticket.

A rare anonymous variant of the CROT issue, see RRC pl. XVII, 9, and Friedman, Schaefer, and Brinkman, “Anonymous Victoriati”, at http://stevebrinkman.ancients.info/anonymous/AnonymousVictoriatii.html#92-1b. Richard Schaefer has counted (not estimated) 10 obverse and 10 reverse dies for this issue in the course of his Republican Die Project, which has the objective of identifying all dies of all Roman Republican coin issues. [Andrew McCabe]