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Ex Duke of Cajaniello Collection
Referenced by Jenkins

445, Lot: 40. Estimate $500.
Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Lilybaion (as ‘Cape of Melkart’). Circa 330-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 16.54 g, 3h). Charioteer driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer; [RŠMLQRT (in Punic) in exergue] / Wreathed head of Kore-Persephone right; three dolphins around. Jenkins, Punic 53 (O18/R41 - this coin referenced); CNP 311; HGC 2, 741; SNG Lloyd 1601 (same dies). VF, toned, compact flan, some roughness and minor marks.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Sotheby’s (28 March 1979), lot 14; Sotheby’s (10 May 1978), lot 46; Pasquale del Pezzo, Duke of Cajaniello Collection (Sambon & Canessa, 27 June 1927), lot 1146.