433, Lot: 3. Estimate $750. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Lilybaion (as ‘Cape of Melkart’). Circa 330-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.44 g, 12h). Charioteer driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer; [RŠMLQRT (in Punic) in exergue] / Wreathed head of Kore-Persephone left; three dolphins around. Jenkins,
Punic 39 (O14/R30); CNP 303; HGC 2, 742; SNG Lloyd 1605 (same dies); Boston MFA 70 (same dies); de Luynes 921 (same dies). Good VF, toned, some deposits, spot of roughness at edge on obverse.
Ex Dionysus Collection.