Artistic Portrait of Herakles

5715882.

SOLD $7500

SICULO-PUNIC, “The Camp”. Circa 300-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 16.97 g, 7h). Possibly Entella mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Head of horse left; palm tree to right, ‘MHMḤNT (“People of the Camp” in Punic) below. Jenkins, Punic, Series 5a, 319 (O103/R262); CNP 271; HGC 2, 293 corr. (varying legend); SNG Lloyd 1644 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 2165 (same dies); Ward 361 (same dies). Attractive even gray tone, with golden hues around the devices, double struck on reverse. Near EF.

Ex Tkalec (28 October 1994), lot 49.