Punic Issues at Lilybaion

Triton XX, Lot: 59. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Lilybaion (as ‘Cape of Melkart’). Circa 350-310 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 16.86 g, 2h). Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand and reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in both hands; [RŠMLQRT (“Raš Melqart” in Punic) in exergue] / Head of Arethousa right, hair flowing, wearing triple-pendant earring and pearl necklace; three dolphins swimming around. Jenkins, Punic 11 (O7/R9); CNP 341 (this coin referenced); HGC 2, 730. Good VF, toned, a couple scratches under tone on reverse. Very rare, and one of only two examples from these dies (the other: J. Hirsch XIX, lot 161 [illustrated in Jenkins]).

From the JMG Collection, purchased from R. Smith, October 1999. Ex Berk BBS 97 (12 September 1997), lot 88; Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 187; Superior (12 December 1987), lot 151.