443, Lot: 437. Estimate $150. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. After 211 BC. Æ Semis (28.5mm, 25.58 g, 12h). Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Saturn right; S (mark of value) to left / Prow of galley right; S (mark of value) above. Crawford 56/3; Sydenham 143a; Type as RBW 203-4; McCabe Group G1. VF, dark green to black patina, a few marks and scratches. Very heavy for issue.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection, purchased from Kölner Münzkabinett.

Cf. Andrew McCabe, “Anonymous Bronzes” in Essays Russo Group G1, pp. 161-165. A heavy coin at 25.7 grams, near the upper limit of those observed and overlapping with weights of the immediately preceding issue, RRC 41/6e. [Andrew McCabe]