From the Jameson Collection

Triton XVII, Lot: 48. Estimate $10000. Sold for $16500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Lilybaion (as ‘Cape of Melkart’). Circa 350-310 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.68 g, 1h). Charioteer, holding kentron in extended left hand and reins in right, driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer with wreath held in both hands; RŠMLQR in Punic in exergue / Head of Arethusa right, wearing single-pendant earring, and necklace; two dolphins flanking. Jenkins, Punic 21 (O10/R12 – this coin referenced); HGC 2, 736; BMC 20 (same dies); Bement 367 (same dies); Jameson 600 (this coin). Near EF, deep old cabinet toning, slight die shift and faint cleaning marks under tone on obverse.

Ex Numismatica Genevensis VII (27 November 2012), lot 146; Robert Jameson Collection, 600; Egger (10 December 1906), lot 87 (purchased by Spink for 350 Kronen).

Jameson lists a further pedigree to the Woodward Collection of ancient coins. The only noted collector of that name, contemporary to this period, would be William Harrison Woodward, some of whose coins were sold though Rollin et Feuardent on 22 May 1908 (but not the present coin).