385, Lot: 408. Estimate $100. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-208 BC. Æ Quadrans (19mm, 5.69 g, 9h). Corn-ear and KA series. Mint in Sicily. Head of Hercules right, wearing lion's skin; [•••] (mark of value) to left / Bull leaping right; ••• (mark of value) and grain ear above, serpent below. Crawford 69/5 and p. 14; Sydenham, p. 10, * note; Type and overstrike as RBW 292; for overstrike, see Crawford Table XVIII, 64. VF, dark brown surfaces, some roughness. Overstruck on a Syracusan bronze (Poseidon/Trident).

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex RBW Collection duplicate, purchased from Dennis Devine, December 1993.

Cr.69/5 corn-ear quadrans, Sicily mint, with clear undertype evidence from a Hieron II Poseidon/Trident with dolphins type, as BM Sicily 598. For the overstrike, cf. Charles Hersh, Numismatic Chronicle 1953, type as p. 40, no. 21 and Crawford, RRC Table XVIII, 64. [A. McCabe]