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Anonymous. After 211 BC. Æ Sextans (15mm, 2.23 g, 9h). Uncertain mint. Head of Mercury right, wearing winged petasus; • • (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; • • (mark of value) below. Crawford 56/6; Sydenham 143d; Type as RBW 212; McCabe Group H1. Brown patina, light roughness. VF.
From the Andrew McCabe Collection.
Overstruck on a Neapolitan bronze – HN Italy 595 (Head of Apollo / Man-faced bull with Victory; ΝΕΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ) – see Clive Stannard in Numismatic Chronicle 2018, pp. 99 ff., who considers these official Roman coins struck in Minturnae or nearby and related to the similar overtypes struck on Sardinian or Sicilian types of the Second Punic war. The Neapolitan undertype is dated to 250-225 BC in HN Italy. [Andrew McCabe]
From the Andrew McCabe Collection.
Overstruck on a Neapolitan bronze – HN Italy 595 (Head of Apollo / Man-faced bull with Victory; ΝΕΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ) – see Clive Stannard in Numismatic Chronicle 2018, pp. 99 ff., who considers these official Roman coins struck in Minturnae or nearby and related to the similar overtypes struck on Sardinian or Sicilian types of the Second Punic war. The Neapolitan undertype is dated to 250-225 BC in HN Italy. [Andrew McCabe]