Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 176. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Entella. Punic issues. Circa 345/38-320/15 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.27 g, 10h). Siculo-Punic issue. Wreathed head of Arethusa right, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; thymiaterion to right / Horse standing right before palm tree; to right, Nike flying left above caduceus, crowning horse; Punic “HB” below. Jenkins, Punic 96 (O33/R87); SNG Lockett 1041 (same dies). Good VF, toned, a few minor marks.

Ex Coin Galleries (17 February 1999), lot 32, and cover coin.

For the attribution of these issues to Entella, see I. Lee, “Entella: the Silver Coinage of the Campanian Mercenaries and the Site of the first Carthaginian Mint 410-409 BC” in NC 2000.