Triton XVIII, Lot: 404. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARTHAGE, Libyan Revolt. Circa 241-238 BC. BI Quarter Shekel (15mm, 2.27 g, 11h). Diademed head of Herakles left / Lion advancing right, head facing; club above, ¬5∫UW@ in exergue. Carradice & La Niece 2 var. (A on obv.); Robinson, Coinage 6; MAA 54; CNP 434; Müller, Afrique 346; SNG Copenhagen –; G. Hirsch 165, lot 561; Malloy 15, lot 375 = Malloy FPL 42, no. 327. EF, toned, small area of flat strike on reverse. Extremely rare fraction, none in CoinArchives, missing from all major published collections.

Ex Georges Bouchereau & Robert Boyer Collection.

The reverse type on this series of shekels and half-shekels in the name of the Lybians, featuring a lion standing right with its head facing, is identical to the reverse on the famous ‘Dido’ tetradrachms struck by the Carthaginians in Sicily (cf. Hunt I 96; Kraay & Hirmer 207).