Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 2973 SESSION 11 (9.30AM THURSDAY 2ND APRIL) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $8,000
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SOLD $17,000
SICILY, Himera, as Thermae Himerensis, (c.350 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (16.51 g), obv. fast quadriga driven left by charioteer, holding reins and kentron, above, Nike flying right to crown him, below horses, signature **[KLH]*, in exergue, **[QERMI]TAN*, rev. head of Tanit (Kore-Persephone) right, wearing barley wreath, earring and necklace, hair caught up behind in saccos, around, three dolphins, (S.-, Jenkins SNR 50-72, Jenkins Punic Sicily I, Thermai 6 and pl. 22, 6, Zeitschrift fur Numismatik (ZfN) 42 (1935) plate IX - 1). Attractive irridescent toning, nearly extremely fine and extremely rare.
Ex NAC Auction R, May 2007, lot 1070.
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