Roma Numismatics Ltd
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Apulia, Canusium Æ 22mm. Circa 250-215 BC. Young male head (Scipio Africanus?) to left / Warrior on horseback to right, wearing crested helmet and holding long spear; KANYΣIN[ΩN] below. HN Italy 660; SNG ANS 694; HGC 1, 581 (R2); CNG E-327, 107 (hammer: USD 750). 7.79g, 22mm, 9h.
Very Fine. Very Rare; only four other examples on CoinArchives.
From the Italo Vecchi Collection;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction IV, 30 September 2012, lot 1009.
Scipio Africanus is known to have sought refuge in Canusium in 217/6 BC, leading A. Alföldi (in Essays in Roman coinage presented to Harold Mattingly, p. 77) to suggest that it is in fact the celebrated general depicted on the obverse.
Very Fine. Very Rare; only four other examples on CoinArchives.
From the Italo Vecchi Collection;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction IV, 30 September 2012, lot 1009.
Scipio Africanus is known to have sought refuge in Canusium in 217/6 BC, leading A. Alföldi (in Essays in Roman coinage presented to Harold Mattingly, p. 77) to suggest that it is in fact the celebrated general depicted on the obverse.