The Hannibal Collection of Carthaginian Coins

Sale 112    25–28 Jul 2016   Dixson Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 3769    Session 14 (11:30am Thursday 28th July)    The Hannibal Collection of Carthaginian Coins

Estimate $4,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $8,000

ZEUGITANIA, Carthage, (possibly Siculo-Punic), (c.250 B.C.), the time of the First Punic War, electrum tridrachm, (10.61 g), obv. head of Tanit to left wearing necklace with nine pendants tied at back with ends hanging loosely, a triple pendant earring and a wreath of grain ears, dotted border, rev. horse standing to right on exergual line, above a sun-disk between two uraeus combras, dotted border, (S.6474 [p.599], Jenkins, Group Xb, No.430, Weber 8491, SNG Cop. 996 (Sicily) and 183 (North Africa), De Luynes 3747-8, Jameson 923). Very fine/good very fine and rare.

Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, Sotheby's New York Sale June 19-20, 1991 (lot 161) and previously from the NFA Auction X, 17th September 1981 (lot 83) and recently from the Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectables, Auction Sale 21, September 15, 2003 (lot 1658).

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