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Triton XX, Lot: 39. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Akragas. Punic occupation. 213-211 BC. AR Half Shekel (20mm, 3.56 g, 11h). Male head right (Triptolemos?), wearing wreath of grain ears / Horse leaping right; Punic Ḥ below; all within wreath. Walker dies II/7; cf. Burnett, Enna 133/134 (same obv./rev. dies); HGC 2, 172; SNG Copenhagen 378 (Carthage). EF, attractive cabinet toning, minor double strike on reverse. Struck on a broad flan.


From the Dr. Patrick H. C. Tan Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XL.2 (Summer 2015), no. 410151.