From the Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 49. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Motya. Circa 405-397 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.44 g, 2h). Head of Arethusa left, in the style of Kimon, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; three dolphins around / Crab within circular incuse. Jenkins, Punic 47 (O6/R9); SNG ANS 501 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 1138 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 481 (same obv. die); Jameson 667 (same dies). Good VF, toned, light scratch at top of obverse. Very rare.

Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s, 19 June 1991), lot 78.