Ancient Gold
Lot 1586 Session 6 (9.30am Thursday) Ancient Gold
Estimate $3,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $3,300
ZEUGITANIA, Carthage, (c.350-320 B.C.), gold stater, (9.348 grams), obv. head of Tanit to left, crowned with wreath of corn, wearing earring with triple pendants and necklace, dotted border, rev. free horse standing to right, single exergue line below, three dots before horse's front leg, dotted border, (cf.S.6451, Jenkins Group IIIf No.47 [same obverse die, and probably the same reverse die] = Pozzi 3306). Off centred on the reverse and less so on the obverse, double struck on the reverse, otherwise good very fine an unpublished dies.
Ex Dr. S. Mulligan Collection and previously Spink America Auction Sale December 1, 1998 (lot 198).
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