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Anonymous. 211-208 BC. Æ Quadrans (20mm, 6.34 g, 3h). Corn-ear and KA series. Mint in Sicily. Head of Hercules right, wearing lion's skin; ••• (mark of value) to left / Bull leaping right; ••• (mark of value) and grain ear above, serpent below. Crawford 69/5 and p. 14; Sydenham, p. 10, * note; Type and overstrike as RBW 292; for overstrike, see Crawford Table XVIII, 64. VF, dark green to black patina, minor roughness and lightly smoothed. Overstruck on a Syracusan bronze (Poseidon/Trident).
From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 73 (13 September 2006), lot 773.
Essentially all known examples of this type are overstrikes, mostly on an Poseidon/Ornamental trident. This coin is an unusually clear strike, complete as to overstrike and with little visible under, but a number of lines can be seen on the bull's flank that may be from an underlying trident. [Andrew McCabe]
From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 73 (13 September 2006), lot 773.
Essentially all known examples of this type are overstrikes, mostly on an Poseidon/Ornamental trident. This coin is an unusually clear strike, complete as to overstrike and with little visible under, but a number of lines can be seen on the bull's flank that may be from an underlying trident. [Andrew McCabe]