ANONYMOUS SILVER QUADRIGATUS – LATE ISSUE IN THE SERIES WITH INTERESTING COLLECTION NUMBER – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED ROMAN REPUBLIC COIN (Inv. 20269)

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20269. ROMAN REPUBLIC. ANONYMOUS. Ca. 225–214/2 BC.
Silver Quadrigatus, 5.63 g, 18 mm. Issue of an uncertain mint, ca. 218–214/2 BC.
Obv. Laureate head of Janus. Rev. Jupiter, holding scepter and preparing to throw his thunderbolt from galloping quadriga driven by Victory, ROMA in exergue.
Crawford 28/3; Sydenham 65; HN Italy 334.
NGC CHOICE VF, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, “inked collection number,” steel gray cabinet toning, obviously from an old collection, the number (102 ?) applied in a white paste on the obverse. Likely one of the reduced and debased later emissions produced before the quadriga coinage collapsed and was replaced by the denarius.