Triton XXI, Lot: 371. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CARTHAGE, Second Punic War. Circa 220-205 BC. EL Three-eighths Shekel (15mm, 2.72 g, 12h). Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, single-pendant earring, and necklace with pendants / Horse stepping right. Jenkins & Lewis Group XV, 482–4; CNP 59; MAA 73b; SNG Fitzwilliam 1503. VF, toned, small flan crack, flan flaw on reverse, a few light marks. Rare.
From the collection of a Northern California Gentleman, purchased from A. S. Saslow in 1989.