CNG 100, Lot: 27. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARTHAGE. Circa 290-270 BC. EL Stater (20mm, 7.36 g, 12h). Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with eight pendants / Horse standing right; two pellets on exergue line. Jenkins & Lewis Group VI, 320 corr. (same rev. die; only one pellet noted); MAA 13; SNG Copenhagen 138 var. (ten pendants on necklace, one pellet on rev.). Good VF, attractive tone, short flan crack, scratch on neck.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Leu 83 (6 May 2002), lot 127.