Dies of Artistic Merit

CNG 100, Lot: 21. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARTHAGE. Circa 320-310 BC. EL Stater (20mm, 7.72 g, 12h). Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with nine pendants / Horse standing right. Jenkins & Lewis Group IVc, 211; MAA 9; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Lockett 1057. EF, lightly toned. Fine style.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 9 (16 April 1996), lot 281.