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327, Lot: 148. Estimate $75.
Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Graxa. Circa 250-225 or 210-215 BC. Æ Sextans (12mm, 1.67 g, 12h). Cockle shell; • • (mark of value) flanking below / Eagle standing right on thunderbolt, with wings spread; [star or letter to right?]. Grose p. 206, 9 (with star on rev.); HN Italy –; SNG ANS 808 (with letters on rev.); SNG Milano III, p. 84, 42 (no control mark). Near VF, olive green patina, some roughness. Very rare with mark of value on obverse.


From the Continental Collection.

It is uncertain why this variety was left out of HN Italy, especially as the two pieces Grose saw are in the BM. If there is a star or no control mark on the reverse, the coin would be connected to the early cockle shell series (HN 773–6), but if there are letters, as ANS 808, it would belong to the later series (HN 779–82).