Star series Æ As. Rome, 169-158 BC. Laureate head of Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley to right; star above, I (mark of value) before, [ROMA below]. Crawford 196/1; Sydenham 264; RBW 842. 25.46g, 33mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the Vitangelo Collection.
Schaefer and McCabe reassigned the star-above fractions with the later Crawford series (196) in "A Fresh Look at Roman Republican Star bronzes, RRC 113 and 196", (Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. 171, 2011).