Live auction: 8-9 March, from 15:00 CET
Lotto 31:
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; SNG ANS 694; HGC 1 581. 7.11 g. 20 mm. RR. Very rare and fascinating type. Good VF/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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