CNG 105, Lot: 19. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Lilybaion (as ‘Cape of Melkart’). Circa 330-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 16.57 g, 12h). Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand, reins in left, driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer; [R]ŠML[QRT] (in Punic) in exergue / Head of Kore-Persephone left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; four dolphins swimming around. Jenkins,
Punic 67 (O22/R51); HGC 2, 741; Pozzi 425 (same dies). EF, toned, some roughness.