Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 178. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Entella. Punic issues. Circa 345/38-320/15 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.06 g, 8h). Siculo-Punic issue. Wreathed head of Arethusa left, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; four dolphins around / Horse standing right before palm tree; crescent above tail. Jenkins, Punic 116 (O39/R105); De Luynes 1441 (same dies). VF, attractively toned, area of minor roughness behind head. Well centered and struck, with all devices visible.

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.