452, Lot: 683. Estimate $100. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 169-158 BC. Æ Quadrans (20mm, 6.82 g, 12h). Butterfly and vine branch series. Rome mint. Head of Hercules right, wearing lion-skin headdress; ••• (mark of value) to left / Prow of galley right; above, butterfly on vine branch with leaf and grape bunch, ••• (mark of value) to right. Crawford 184/4; Sydenham 296c; Type as RBW 784. Dark green and brown patina with traces of red. Good Fine. Rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection, purchased from Numismatica Ars Classica, 2010. Ex Bombarda Collection (before 2005 with collector’s ticket).