294, Lot: 54. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Lilybaion (as ‘Cape of Melkart’). Circa 330-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.34 g, 12h). Charioteer driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer; Punic [RŠM]LQR[T] in exergue / Wreathed head of Kore-Persephone right; three dolphins around. Jenkins, Punic 38 (O14/R29 – this coin referenced); Weber 1297 (same dies). Good VF, toned, area of deposit on reverse.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex J. Hirsch XXXIII (17 November 1913), lot 344.