Anonymous. Circa 225-214 BC. AR Didrachm – Quadrigatus (24mm, 6.72 g, 5h). Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Janus; curved truncation / Jupiter, hurling thunderbolt with right hand and holding scepter in left, in quadriga right driven by Victory; ROMA incuse on raised tablet in exergue. Crawford 28/3; Sydenham 64; RSC 23; HN Italy 334; RBW 65–6. Lovely cabinet toning with some iridescence, a few areas of find patina on the reverse, a few light marks and scratches beneath toning. Near EF. Struck on a broad flan. Exceptional.
Ex Triton XIX (5 January 2016), lot 388.