Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 718. Estimate $2000. Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Siculo-Punic. Circa 300-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.17 g, 12h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Horse head left; grain ear to left, palm tree to right, Punic 'MHMHNT below. Jenkins,
Punic, Series 5a, 293 (O93/R241); SNG Copenhagen (Zeugitania) 90 = SNG Copenhagen (Sicily) 984; SNG Lewis 428 (same dies). Choice EF, toned with golden hues around the devices. ($2000)
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 10 (9 April 1997), lot 190