Watch List notes:

SAMNIUM, Saunitai. Circa 310-300 BC. AR Obol (10mm, 0.61 g, 9h). Head of female right, wearing veil; retrograde [ΣAY]NIT[AN] to left / Javelin-head within wreath. Campana, Agg. Saunitai 1.4 (O1/R2) = Jameson 26 (this coin); Sambon 171; HN Italy 446; SNG Lloyd 43 (same obv. die); De Luynes 20–1 (same obv. die). VF, toned, light porosity. Extremely rare, one of only four noted by Campana, none in CoinArchives, and this is the only one not in a public collection.


Ex Triton III (30 November 1999), lot 23; Ceresio 2 (26 September 1988), lot 1; Robert Jameson Collection, 26; Arthur J. Evans Collection.