385, Lot: 403. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 206-195 BC. Æ Quadrans (20mm, 5.94 g, 3h). Mint in Sardinia. Head of Hercules right, wearing lion skin; ••• (mark of value) to left / Prow of galley right; upright spearhead before; ••• (mark of value) below. Crawford 86/6 var. (mint location and style); Sydenham –; Type as RBW 377. Fine, brown patina. Very rare.

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

Sardinian mint, Cr. 88 spearhead quadrans (not Apulia). For the classification of spearhead bronzes into three groups, see Russo (Essays Hersh, 1998) pp. 142-143, this type pl. 19, 51. For the assignation of this type to the same Sicilian mint as the C, MA, and AVR coinage, with which it evidently shares die engravers and weight standard (compare style with the next coin, also Sardinian), see Andrew McCabe, “The Roman Bronze Coinage struck in Apulia and South East Italy in the Second Punic War,” in Proceedings XV International Numismatic Congress Taormina 2015, forthcoming, this type fig. 19. [A. McCabe]