Third and Finest Known Specimen

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 343. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MAURETANIA, Lixus. Circa 50-1 BC. Æ Unit (28mm, 10.63 g). MP L LKŠ in neo-Punic, head of Chusor-Kothar-Ptah right, wearing headdress adorned with cord; all within pelleted border / LIX, ornate altar set on ornate base; entablature decorated with uraeus; all within pelleted border. MAA 173bis; Mazard 640; SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, green and brown patina. Extremely rare, the finest of three known.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection.

Unique at the time of Mazard, a second example has recently been published by Alexandropoulos (MAA). Our coin is the third known specimen. Although it appears to be of the same dies as the Mazard specimen, the poor state of preservation of that coin prevents a more definite determination.