Very Rare Issue

343, Lot: 23. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Entella. Punic issues. Circa 300-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 15.91 g, 12h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Head of horse left; thunderbolt to left, palm tree to right, [‘MHMHNT (in Punic) below]. Jenkins, Punic 276 (O88/R229); HGC 2, 293. VF, toned, numerous marks, pits, edge bumps. Very rare issue with thunderbolt, only known from one die pair.

Ex Bonham’s & Vecchi V (19 March 1981), lot 70.