|
SICULO-PUNIC, “The Camp”. Circa 300-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.72 g, 6h). Possibly Entella mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Head of horse left; pellet to left, palm tree to right, MḤSBM ( “People of the Camp” in Punic) below. Jenkins, Punic, Series 5b, 343 (O110/R281 – this coin referenced and illustrated); CNP 272b; BAR Issue 5; HGC 2, 293 corr. (varying legend). Old collection tone, a couple of tiny spots of die rust on obverse. Good VF.
From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Manhattan Sale III (3 January 2012), lot 103 (hammer $2500); Kirk Davis FPL 39 (Summer 2002), no. 22; Kirk Davis FPL 35 (Summer 2001), no. 16; Numismatica Ars Classica L (18 May 2001), lot 1276; Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 396; G. K. Jenkins Collection (‘Collection Y’ cited in Jenkins).
The final winners of all CNG Feature Auction 126 lots will be determined during the live online sale that will be held on 28-29 May 2024. This lot is in Session One, which will begin 28 May at 9 AM ET.
Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.
We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.
|
