CNG 106, Lot: 34. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Entella. Punic issues. Circa 300-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.01 g, 4h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Head of horse left; palm tree to right, Punic ‘MHMḤNT below. Jenkins,
Punic – (O93/R233 [unlisted combination]); SNG Lloyd 1655 (same obv. die); SNG Fitzwilliam 1495 (same obv. die); Cajaniello Collection (Sambon & Canessa, 27 June 1927), lot 1160 (same rev. die). Superb EF, attractive light gray cabinet patina, some die wear on reverse. A new die combination for the corpus.
Ex RCM Collection (Triton XVI, 8 January 2013), lot 203.