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385, Lot: 409. Estimate $150.
Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-210 BC. Æ Sextans (20mm, 5.50 g, 12h). Apulia mint. Draped bust of Mercury right, wearing petasus; • • (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; ROMA above; •• (mark of value) below. Crawford 86/6 var. (see note below); Sydenham –; Type not in RBW; McCabe Group F1. Good VF, green patina, a few cleaning marks. Very rare.


From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex JD Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 72, 16 May 2013), lot 408; Lanz 74 (20 November 1995), lot 325.

86/6 variety anonymous sextans from H-Q series, Apulia mint. McCabe (Essays Russo, 2013) pp. 149-153 shows that this rare anonymous series, McCabe type F1, is related to both RRC 85 and 86 as well as RRC 97, all from Apulia. The reverse of this sextans includes design elements from the prows of the H and Q series such as the central keel line, which intersects with the upper line halfway across the prow, as well as an engraving style for obverse and reverse that is akin to that used on some L series coinage. There are two sextans designs in this F1 series, that with a regular prow such as this coin and sextantes with a prow having a raised fighting deck with club within such as used on the Luceria coinage. This is a hybrid coin issue that demonstrates the use of shared engravers and shared design elements between the ROMA, V, H, Q, L and L-T issues, although probably involving three different mint locations. The Apulian bronze coinage of this period is explored in 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. [A. McCabe]