443, Lot: 435. Estimate $100. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 215-212 BC. Æ Sextans (26mm, 13.73 g, 2h). Post-semilibral series. Rome mint. Head of Mercury right, wearing winged petasus; • • (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; •• (mark of value) below, ROMA above. Crawford 41/9; Sydenham 107; McCabe Group A1; Type as RBW 133-4. VF, dark green and brown patina. Overstruck on a semilibral uncia, Crawford 38/6.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection, purchased from Münzen Sänn.

This coin is a RRC 41/9 post-semilibral sextans overstruck on a RRC 38/6 semilibral uncia. The crest of Roma's helmet from the undertype is especially clear above the prow, while on the obverse the lines through the head are from the prow and the bulbous protrusion on Mercury's forehead is the value mark of the uncia below the prow. Unusually clear. [Andrew McCabe]