Greek Silver & Bronze

Lot 2423       Greek Silver & Bronze

Estimate $3,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,900

SICULO-PUNIC, (c.410-395 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (17.132 grams), obv. forepart of a horse without bridle to right, crowned by Nike above with wreath and [caduceus] facing to right, grain ear before, lion's head to right behind, Punic legend 'QRT HDST' below, rev. a palm tree with two date clusters, (cf.S.6426 [p.594], Jenkins, SNR 53, 16 [same dies, dies 04/R16] = Berlin specimen, Naville 12 [lot 1058 same obverse die]). Well centred, nearly extremely fine and very rare.

Ex Argenar Numismatique, Paris, April 27, 1999 (lot 46). Jenkins records only one example of this coin type from these dies, although nine examples of the obverse die are reported, eight come from two other different reverse dies. This example is undoubtedly one of the finest known examples of this unique obverse die. Jenkins and Lewis note the entire series comes from ten obverse and thirty two reverse dies.