Lot 1794

Description

Sicily, Panormos, (c.405-400 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (17.496 grams), obv. fast quadriga driven to left by male charioteer, Nike flying right crowning charioteer traces, Punic legend in exergue 'sys', rev. diademed head of Persephone to right, surrounded by four dolphins, (S.885 [p.92, £900], Jenkins SNR 50, No.11, [O 3/R 11, Pl.8, same dies], cf.Hess Leu Sale 1966 [lot 174, same dies] and Glendining Sale Dec. 1963, No.136 [same dies]). Toned, small flan as usual, slightly off centred on the reverse, otherwise good very fine and extremely rare with only four published pieces known for this type.

Ex Laurence M. Cutler Collection, USA, sold in Numismatic Fine Arts Fall Mail Bid 1990, October 18 1990 (lot 124). Panormos was the principal Phoenician city in Sicily. It produced a limited coinage in the latter part of the 5th century. The Panormos tetradrachms of this time were copied from other Sicilian tetradrachms (some inluding signatures). This example is a copy from a Syracuse tetradrachm similar to the work of Eumenes, cf.ACNAC Dewing 853-4 and Rizzo Pl.XLVII.