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CNG 106, Lot: 38. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Lilybaion (as ‘Cape of Melkart’). Circa 330-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 17.23 g, 6h). Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand, reins in left, driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer with wreath held in both hands; RŠMLQRT (in Punic) in exergue / Head of Kore-Persephone left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; four dolphins swimming around. Jenkins, Punic 32 (O13/R25); HGC 2, 742 (this coin illustrated); Weber 1477 (same dies). Good VF, attractive old cabinet toning, indications of undertype on reverse.


Ex Cederlind 147 (17 July 2008), no. 20; Leu 95 (25 October 2005), lot 541.