Jenkins & Lewis Plate Coin

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 124. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARTHAGE. Circa 320-310 BC. EL Stater (7.66 g, 12h). Wreathed head of Tanit left, wearing triple-pendant earring, and necklace with nine pendants / Horse standing right; two pellets on groundline. Jenkins & Lewis group IVd, 229 (this coin); MAA 9; SNG Copenhagen -; Ars Classica XVI, lot 940. Superb EF. Fine style dies.

Ex Arthur J. Frank Collection; Jules Furthman Collection (Kosoff, 13 October 1965), no. 26; R.P. Pflieger Collection (not in Vinchon sale); 1925 Orrestano Hoard (IGCH 2264).