|
|
Crawford 097/8, ROMAN REPUBLIC, L Series, AE Semuncia
|
Rome, The Republic.
L Series, circa 211-208 BCE.
AE Semuncia (3.52g; 18mm).
Obverse: Mercury head facing right, wearing winged petasus.
Reverse: Prow r; above ε; be ROMA; before L; above, ε (mark-of-value).
References: Crawford 97/8; Sydenham 178g (R5); Kestner-Hannover 1090; BMCRR (Italy) ----.
Provenance: Ex Bertolami Fine Arts 24 (22 Jun 2016), Lot 371.
There are only four examples of this rare semuncia of Luceria in the Paris collection. There were no examples in the British Museum collection at the 1910 publication of BMCRR.
|
|
