Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 181. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Entella. Punic issues. Circa 300-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.07 g, 12h). Siculo-Punic issue. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Horse head left; club before, palm tree behind, Punic ‘MHMHNT’ below. Jenkins, Punic 286 (O91/R235); SNG Lockett 1055 var. (grain ear, not club; same obv. die). Superb EF, minor die break on cheek, light die rust on obverse.

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.