CNG 102, Lot: 170. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARTHAGE, First Punic War. Circa 264-241 BC. EL 1½ Shekels – Tridrachm (22.5mm, 10.15 g, 12h). Reduced standard. Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears (with dot on leaf), triple-pendant earring, and necklace with nine pendants / Horse standing right, head left; above, ouraios with six rays above, five below; pellet behind hoof of leading hind leg (faintly visible). Jenkins & Lewis Group Xb, 437; MAA 32; CNP 41h; SNG Copenhagen 996 (rays on ouraios); Bement 600 var. (same); Weber 8491 var. (same). VF, toned, edge bump and marks consistent with prior mount, hairline flan crack. Rare J&L Group Xb, and particularly with this variety of ouraios: only one example listed in J&L, 2 in auctions noted in CNP, one in CoinArchives.