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Artistic Punic Issue

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 59. Estimate $7500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008. 
Sold For $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Entella. Punic issues. Circa 320/15-300 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.81 g, 12h). Wreathed head of Arethusa left, wearing triple-pendent earring and necklace; before, dolphin above caduceus / Horse head left; palm tree to right. Jenkins, Punic 223 (O67/R192; this coin referenced and illustrated); Gulbenkian 374 (same dies). Near EF, toned. Artistic obverse die.


Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 9 (16 April 1996), lot 287.