151, Lot: 17. Estimate $500. Sold for $440. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Lilybaion (as ‘Cape of Melkart’). Circa 330-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 16.52 g). Siculo-Punic issue. Charioteer driving quadriga right; Nike flying above crowning charioteer; Punic 'RSMLQRT' in exergue / Wreathed head of Persephone left, wearing triple pendant earring and necklace. Jenkins, Punic 61 (O20/R46); SNG Lockett 741 (same dies). VF, rough surfaces.

From the Richard Winokur Collection.

For the attribution of these issues to Lilybaion, 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.