Biblical & Jewish Coins

Lot 1736    Session 6 (9.30am Thursday)    Biblical & Jewish Coins

Estimate $2,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,900

SICILY, Panormos, (c.410-405 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (17.094 grams), obv. slow quadriga driven to right by male charioteer, Nike flying right crowning horses, rev. **PANO*R**[MITIKON]* retrograde around, laureate head of Apollo to right, (S.882 [p.92, £1400], Jenkins SNR 50, No.6, [O 2/R 6, Pl.7 same dies], BMC 1, Rizzo Plate 64, 24). Good very fine and extremely rare with only four published pieces known for this type.

Ex Triton II Auction Sale 1st - 2nd December 1998 (lot 205) and S,Mulligan Collection sold Noble Numismatics Sale 64 (lot 2414). Panormos was the principal Phoenician city in Sicily. It produced a limited coinage in the latter part of the 5th century. The Panormos tetradrachms of this time were copied from other Sicilian tetradrachms (some inluding signatures). This example is a copy from a Katana tetradrachm similar to ACNAC Dewing 581 and Rizzo Pl.11, 4-12. Another piece from the same dies (Jenkins example 6-3) was in Noble Numismatics Sale 62 (lot 1856).