436, Lot: 116. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CARTHAGE. Circa 310-290 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 7.38 g, 12h). Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with twelve pendants; pellet before neck / Horse standing right; two pellets below exergue line. Jenkins & Lewis Group V, 265 (same dies); CNP 2.10c; MAA 10; SNG Copenhagen 975; Boston MFA 502; Weber 8492. VF, underlying luster, minor die break on obverse. Well centered.
From the DMS Collection, purchased from Jonathan K. Kern, November 2002.