Triton XIX, Lot: 2031. Estimate $5000. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARTHAGE, First Punic War. Circa 264-241 BC. EL 1½ Shekels – Tridrachm (22mm, 10.96 g, 12h). Reduced standard. Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with nine pendants / Horse standing right, head left; ouraios above; pellet before leading hind leg. Jenkins & Lewis Group Xa, 407 (this coin); MAA 30; CNP 41a (this coin referenced); SNG Copenhagen 995 var. (pellets); SNG Lockett 1061 var. (same); Gulbenkian 386 var. (same). Good VF, a couple light marks, edge marks from prior mount. Extremely rare variety, this the only published example.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Glendining (9 October 1989), lot 182; Cahn 84 (29 November 1933), lot 477.