Punic Litra

CNG 97, Lot: 35. Estimate $1000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Panormos (as Ziz). Circa 336-330 BC. Æ Litra (24mm, 11.77 g, 4h). Head of Hera left, wearing polos / Man-headed bull standing left; radiate head of Helios above. Jenkins, Punic, pl. 24, 21; CNS (Ziz) 5; HGC 2, 1057 corr. (dates; this coin illustrated); Virzi 1302–6. Near EF, green and brown patina with traces of red, minor roughness.

From the Trinacria Collection. Ex David Freedman Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 210.