Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 2444 Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $36,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $39,000
SICULO-PUNIC, (c.264-260 B.C.), the time of the First Punic War, silver three shekels or hexadrachm, (22.28 grams), obv. head of Tanit to left wearing triple pendant earring and wreath of grain ears, rev. horsehead to right, (S.6443 [p.596], Jenkins, SNR 57, 428 [dies 01/R1], Lanz Sale 22 [lot 468, cover coin this coin], De Luynes 3780 [same dies], SNG Lockett 1065 [similar dies]). Attractive purple and blue tone, almost free of any imperfections, nearly extremely fine/extremely fine and of great rarity.
Ex Lanz Auction Sale 22, May 10, 1982 (lot 468, illustrated on the front cover, realised 71,680 DM); sold Triton III, Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 1999 (lot 354 illustrated). Jenkins records only five examples of this coin type with only the Lockett example not in a museum being the only other available collector example. The issue comes from three obverse and two reverse dies.
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