Lot 3738

Description

Siculo-Punic, (c.410-395 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (17.20 g), obv. forepart of a horse without bridle to right, crowned by Nike above with wreath and caduceus facing to right, grain ear before, Punic legend 'QRT HDST' below, rev. a palm tree with two date clusters, (cf.S.6426 [p.594], Jenkins, SNR 53, 17 [same dies, dies 04/R17] = ANS specimen, Naville 12 [lot 1058 same dies]). Slightly off centred, good very fine - nearly extremely fine and very rare.

Ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection, Stacks, New York, January 14, 2008 (lot 2134).
Jenkins records only six examples of this coin type from these dies, although nine examples of the obverse die are reported, eight come from two other different reverse dies. Jenkins and Lewis note the entire series comes from ten obverse and thirty two reverse dies.