Roman Republic, Roman Republican Coins, Anonymous, As, c. 215-211, laureate head of Janus, i above, rev. roma, prow right, i above, 59.74g/1h (Crawford –; Hannover 508; Russo 1, same dies). Weakly struck, otherwise very fine, green-brown patina, very rare (£400-500)

Russo, ‘Unpublished Roman Coins’ in Essays in honour of Charles Hersh, 1998, pp. 139-150, convincingly places this remarkable issue to the post-semilibral period of Crawford series 41