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385, Lot: 412. Estimate $150.
Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-208 BC (or later). Æ As (28mm, 19.86 g, 9h). Anonymous P-CA as, emergency issue. Canusium mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; [I] (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) above, ROMA below. Cf. Crawford 99/1-100/1; cf. Sydenham 304-309; Type not in RBW, but cf. RBW 417-8, which are also emergency struck asses, but in the style of the L-T and later L issues; McCabe Group F2, F2.As.2 (this coin–illustrated on p. 155). VF, dark brown patina with touches of red, smoothing. Very rare.


From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 190 (25 June 2008), lot 195.

99/1-100/1 variety anonymous P-CA as, emergency issue, not in Crawford. This type is traditionally (although incorrectly in this case) catalogued as an RRC 97/22a Luceria as without the mintmark. However, the style of the obverse with a relatively flat-topped fighting platform resembles that of the CA series, and the obverse style, where the treatment of the front of the face exactly matches those of the CA coinage, cf. RBW 447 for style, shows this to be a Canusium struck issue. The same engraver also created dies for the P series, cf. McCabe (Essays Russo, 2013) p. 155 coin RRC99.1.1 = Paris d’Ailly 3548 = cited coin in RRC for type 99/1b. This proves this coin to come from the P and CA mint, which contra Crawford in RRC must be a single mint based in Canusium, i.e. the P coinage is not from Luceria. This finding is documented 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. The double slanted lines under the bust do not seem to be a letter and are probably merely die damage, cf. Triton I, lot 938 for a coin from the same die pair, not showing these lines. McCabe (Essays Russo, 2013) pp. 153-157 type F2, F2.As.2 (this coin illustrated). [A. McCabe]