★ Ex Ars Classica 1933 ★

The Carthaginians in Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and North Africa

Tetradrachm, uncertain mint in Sicily "people of the camp" circa 330-320, AR 23 mm, 16.95 g. Head of Tanit (Kore-Persephone) r., wearing barley-wreath, bar and triple pendant earring and dotted necklace; in r. field, thymiaterion. Rev. Horse advancing r., raising l. foreleg; in r. field, Nike holding wreath above caduceus; palm tree in background and below, hb in Punic characters. SNG Lockett 1041 (this reverse die). Jenkins Punic Sicily III, 95 (this coin listed).

Beautiful old cabinet iridescent tone. An almost invisible scuff on eyebrow and cheek, otherwise good very fine

Ex Ars Classica sale XVI, 1933, 931. From the collection of a Mentor.