Ex Hunt Collection

CNG 100, Lot: 29. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARTHAGE, First Punic War. Circa 264-241 BC. EL Quarter Stater (13mm, 2.70 g, 12h). Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace / Horse standing right; pellet in field below and on exergual line. Jenkins & Lewis Group Xa, 427 corr. (same dies; pellet on exergue line not noted); MAA 31; SNG Copenhagen –. Good VF, underlying luster. Extremely rare, only two others known to Jenkins and Lewis (in the BM and Vatican), all from the same dies.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s, 19 June 1991), lot 160.