Rare 20 Asses from the Adams Collection

CNG 109, Lot: 537. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-210 BC. AV 20 Asses (10mm, 1.10 g, 7h). Mint in Sicily. Bearded head of Mars right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; XX (mark of value) to left / Eagle standing right on thunderbolt, with wings spread; ROMA and grain ear below. Crawford 72/2; Sydenham 234; Bahrfeldt 6b; Adams III 2181 (this coin); Biaggi 5 var. (no grain ear); RBW 303-4. Good VF, underlying luster. Rare.

Ex Dr. Lawrence A. Adams Collection (Triton XIX, 4 January 2016), lot 2181, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, June 1990.