Triton XXI, Lot: 370. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CARTHAGE, First Punic War. Circa 264-241 BC. EL 1½ Shekels – Tridrachm (23.5mm, 10.64 g, 12h). Reduced standard. Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace / Horse standing right, head left;
ouraios above; pellet behind foot of leading hind leg. Jenkins & Lewis Group Xb, 446X, 19 (
this coin); CNP 41i; MAA 30; SNG Copenhagen 996; Bement 600; Jameson 923; de Luynes 3747–8; Weber 8491. VF, toned, usual small flan crack.
From the collection of a Northern California Gentleman, purchased from Seaby in 1980. Ex Ars Classica XII (18 October 1926), lot 1089.