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Auction X 13 January 2013
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Sicily. Siculo-Punic. c. 410-395 BC. Tetradrachm, 16.17g. (4h). Obv: Forepart of bridled horse right, wheat grain in right field, Nike above holding wreath; dotted border. Rx: Palm tree with drooping branches, small date bunches; legend QRTHDST in Punic letters. Jenkins, SNR 53 (1974), p. 37, no. 20 (O6/R20). SNG Copenhagen 71. SNG Delepierre 716. Good VF.
Ex Al Zaloom Collection.
This is one of the earliest coins struck by the Carthaginians in Sicily. The issue was to finance the war against the Greek cities of Selinus and Himera, captured and destroyed by the Carthaginian army in 409/8 BC. The types are distinctively Carthaginian: the horse that was part of the omen indicating where to found the city of Carthage, and the palm tree (phoinix), a pun pointing to the origin of Carthage, Phoenicia.
Ex Al Zaloom Collection.
This is one of the earliest coins struck by the Carthaginians in Sicily. The issue was to finance the war against the Greek cities of Selinus and Himera, captured and destroyed by the Carthaginian army in 409/8 BC. The types are distinctively Carthaginian: the horse that was part of the omen indicating where to found the city of Carthage, and the palm tree (phoinix), a pun pointing to the origin of Carthage, Phoenicia.