452, Lot: 664. Estimate $200. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. After 211 BC. Æ As (34mm, 36.41 g, 11h). Uncertain mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) above. Crawford 56/2; Sydenham 143; Type as RBW 201-2; McCabe Group G1. Dark reddish brown patina. VF.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Roberto Russo Collection, with his ticket dated 2001.

Small Janus head variety with curly hair on the obverse and delineated prow-stem, curled back at the end, on the reverse. [Andrew McCabe]