408, Lot: 380. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 210-207 BC. Æ Triens (23mm, 6.94 g, 3h). Mint in Canusium. Helmeted head of Minerva right; four pellets (mark of value) above; P below neck truncation / Prow of galley right; ROMA above, P to right, [four pellets] (mark of value) below. Crawford 99/5; Sydenham 306b; Type as RBW 441. Near VF, dark green and brown patina with traces of red, some light scratches and striking weakness. Extremely rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Artemide Aste 2E (12 January 2010), lot 2074.

In a paper presented at the 2015 International Numismatic Congress in Taormina (“The Roman Struck Bronze Coinage of Apulia in the Second Punic War”), I have shown that the coinage with P mintmark very likely was minted in Canusium and not in Luceria, in the 210-207 BC period, either just before or just after the issue with CA mintmark. [Andrew McCabe]