CNG 100, Lot: 35. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARTHAGE. Circa 160-149 BC. AV Two-fifths Shekel (13mm, 3.00 g, 12h). Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, single-pendant earring, and necklace / Horse standing right, with far foreleg raised. Jenkins & Lewis Group XVIII, 496 (same dies); MAA 97; SNG Copenhagen –. Good VF, a couple of fine scratches on reverse. Extremely rare with plain edge and no control mark on reverse, only three known to Jenkins & Lewis, two additional in CoinArchives (all from the same dies).

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Sotheby’s Geneva (11 November 1990), lot 13.