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NYINC Signature Sale 3044 3-4 January 2016
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SICULO-PUNIC. Lilybaion ('Ras Melqart'). Ca. 360-330 BC. AR tetradrachm (26mm, 16.82 gm, 6h). Charioteer, holding a kentron in his right hand and reins in left, driving galloping quadriga to right, Punic legend R'SMLQRT ("People of the Camp") in exergue / Head of Arethusa right, wearing a wreath of grain-ears, a triple-pendant earring and necklace, three dolphins around. Jenkins, (SNR 50, 1971), 37 (O14/R28). HGC 2, 741. Obverse a tad misstruck. Lovely old cabinet toning. NGC AU 3/5 - 5/5. After the destruction of Motya by the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius I, the Carthaginians relocated the surviving population to a new, well-defended fortress on the western corner of Sicily. The Greeks called the city Lilybaion, while the Carthaginians referred to it as Ras Melqart, or the "Cape of Melqart." A second Punic mint (after Entella) was established there producing coins closely modeled on the issues of Syracuse, usually featuring a charging quadriga backed with a female head surrounded by leaping dolphins. Coinage at Lilybaion ended in about 305 BC and was not resumed until the Romans took full control of Sicily a century later.
Estimate: 2500-3500 USD
SICULO-PUNIC. Lilybaion ('Ras Melqart'). Ca. 360-330 BC. AR tetradrachm (26mm, 16.82 gm, 6h). Charioteer, holding a kentron in his right hand and reins in left, driving galloping quadriga to right, Punic legend R'SMLQRT ("People of the Camp") in exergue / Head of Arethusa right, wearing a wreath of grain-ears, a triple-pendant earring and necklace, three dolphins around. Jenkins, (SNR 50, 1971), 37 (O14/R28). HGC 2, 741. Obverse a tad misstruck. Lovely old cabinet toning. NGC AU 3/5 - 5/5. After the destruction of Motya by the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius I, the Carthaginians relocated the surviving population to a new, well-defended fortress on the western corner of Sicily. The Greeks called the city Lilybaion, while the Carthaginians referred to it as Ras Melqart, or the "Cape of Melqart." A second Punic mint (after Entella) was established there producing coins closely modeled on the issues of Syracuse, usually featuring a charging quadriga backed with a female head surrounded by leaping dolphins. Coinage at Lilybaion ended in about 305 BC and was not resumed until the Romans took full control of Sicily a century later.
Estimate: 2500-3500 USD