Auction Catalogue

14 March 2007

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Important Ancient Coins

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 76

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14 March 2007

Hammer Price:
£460

Carthaginian Sicily and North Africa, Tetradrachm, c. 340-320, wreathed head of Kore left, wearing single-pendant ear-ring and necklace, rev. horse standing left before palm tree, 17.00g/8h (Jenkins 61). Very fine (£400-500)

Provenance:
Bt Spartan Numismatics.

For the recent attribution of this series to the mint of Entella see I. Lee, ‘Entella: The Silver Coinage of the Campanian Mercenaries and the First Carthaginian Mint 410-409 BC’,
NC 2000