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Auction LXI  4-5 May 2024
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Lot 50

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Greek Italy. Northern Apulia, Canusium. AE 19.5 mm, c. 250-225 BC. Obv. Head of young male left. Rev. [Κ]ΑΝΥΣ[ΙΝΩΝ]. Warrior, holding spear, on horseback right. HN Italy 660; HGC 2 581; SNG ANS 694. AE. 6.31 g. 19.40 mm. RR. Very rare. Nice deep green patina. VF. 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.
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