385, Lot: 402. Estimate $100. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-208 BC. AR Denarius (21mm, 3.76 g, 4h). Uncertain Central Italian mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) to left / Dioscuri on horseback riding right; below, rostrum tridens and ROMA in partial linear frame. Crawford 62/1; Sydenham 146; RSC 20x; Type as RBW 260. Near VF, crystallized, broken and repaired with a small piece missing. Extremely rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex RBW Collection duplicate, purchased from Wayne Phillips, December 1994.

Cr.62 early rostrum tridens denarius. Extremely rare, not to be confused with the plentiful 114/1. Crawford illustrates the rather poorly preserved British Museum example, which is scratched and corroded; Santini, Monete Consolari Anonime, Milan 1940, could only locate the same BM example and one other in Haeberlin (#235), with none in Paris, as against the later 114/1 type for which he lists 9 Paris examples, 3 BM examples, and 3 Haeberlin examples. I would have been very happy to retain this RBW example, despite its condition, but was recently fortunate to obtain the Bastianelli collection coin, Giuseppe de Falco FPL 83 (Dec.1969). [A. McCabe]