From the Tan, Gillet, Vogel, and de Ciccio Collections
Triton XIV, Lot: 29. Estimate $5000. Sold for $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Lilybaion (as ‘Cape of Melkart’). Circa 330-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.86 g, 12h). Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in both hands; [RŠMLQRT in exergue] / Head of Arethusa left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace; three dolphins around. Jenkins,
Punic 55 (O19/R42 – this coin referenced); BMC 16 (same dies); SNG Lockett 742 (same dies). EF, lovely old cabinet toning, slight double strike. Well struck from dies of fine style.
From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection. Ex Hess-Divo 307 (7 June 2007), lot 1104; Münzen und Medaillen AG 54 (26 October 1978), lot 144; Charles Gillet Collection (Münzen und Medaillen AG 43, 12 November 1970), lot 60; A. Hess Lucerne (7 March 1935), lot 251; A. Hess 209 (12 April 1932), lot 15; A. Hess 202 (28 October 1930), lot 2268; Hermann Vogel Collection (A. Hess 194, 25 March 1929), lot 131; J. Hirsch XXXIV (5 May 1914), lot 152; Giuseppe de Ciccio Collection (Sambon & Canessa, 19 December 1907), lot 488.