Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 477. Estimate $200. Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008. Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BYZACIUM, Hadrumentum(?). 2nd-1st century BC. Æ Quarter Shekel(?) (2.56 g, 9h). Draped bust of Baal-Hammon right, wearing tiara / Veiled and draped bust of Isis right, wearing cow horns surmounted by sun disk; to left, “AT”(?) in Punic. Cf. MAA 77-8; cf. Müller 83-5 (Tucca in Numidia); cf. Mazard Appendix II, XXXV (incertaines); cf. SNG Copenhagen 68-9 (all refs. for obverse type). VF, brown patina, light overall roughness. Unpublished with the Isis reverse.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection.