South Italy, Calabria or Apulia?, AE21 (unmarked dilitra or semiuncia), Roman republican issue, ca 260 BC. 6.82 g.

Diademed female head right.
ROMANO beneath lion walking right, holding broken spear in its jaws.

HN Italy 276 ("Southern Italy"); Crawford 16/1a; Sydenham 5; SNG Cop. 190.


With permission of cngcoins.com, auction 87, Lot 914, May 2011