CNG 100, Lot: 34. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARTHAGE, Second Punic War. Circa 203-201 BC. AV Fifth Stater (14mm, 1.90 g, 12h). Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, single-pendant earring, and necklace / Horse standing right. Jenkins & Lewis Group XIV, 465 (same dies); MAA 76; SNG Copenhagen –; Bement 602 (same dies); Ward 930 (same dies). Good VF, small nick on cheek, area of light porosity on reverse. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 9 (16 April 1996), lot 292.