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Triton XX, Lot: 60. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Lilybaion (as ‘Cape of Melkart’). Circa 330-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.22 g, 1h). Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand and reins in left, driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer with open wreath held in both hands; [RŠMLQRT (“Raš Melqart” in Punic) in exergue] / Head of Arethousa right, wearing triple-pendant earring and pearl necklace; four dolphins swimming around. Jenkins, Punic 47 (O16/R36); CNP 310; HGC 2, 741; SNG Lloyd 1600 (same dies); Jameson 598 (same dies); de Luynes 919 (same dies). Near EF, toned, slight die wear and a little off center on obverse.


Ex Heritage 3041 (13 August 2015), lot 32009.