Triton XIX, Lot: 2028. Estimate $20000. Sold for $45000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARTHAGE. Circa 270-264 BC. AV 1½ Shekels – Tridrachm (23mm, 12.48 g, 12h). Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with twelve pendants / Horse standing right, head left. Jenkins & Lewis Group IX, 386 = de Luynes 3749 (same dies); MAA 26; CNP 76d; SNG Copenhagen 181; Basel 569; Gulbenkian 384; Kraay & Hirmer 210. EF, very light deposits on reverse.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, December 1990.