| Davissons, Ltd. > Auction 43 | Auction date: 20 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 77 Price realized: 400 USD (Approx. 368 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: SYRTICA. Sabratha. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Circa 60-50 B.C. Æ 2 units. 19.86 gm. 30 mm. Laureate and bearded head of Herakles right / Pentastyle temple; SBRT'N in Neo-Punic script in exergue. MAA 38. SNG Copenhagen 35. Very Fine; rich red-green-and black patination with earthern highlights; large 36 mm flan, pierced at the top; beautifully rendered pentastyle temple, dramatic and clear. Very Rare, and in excellent condition for the issue, with a well-detailed reverse. The Temple of Isis is one of three temples and the Theatre, all part of the outstanding monuments at Sabratha, Libya, which was a Phoenician trading post on the Meditarranean coast just west of modern Tripoli. Founded by the Phoenicians to support their trade routes along the coast of northern Africa, it served as an outlet for products of the African interior. After the fall of Carthage in 146 B.C., it became part of the short-lived Numidian Kingdom of Massinissa before being annexed to the Roman Republic as the province of Africa Nova in the 1st century B.C. and subsequently Romanized and rebuilt in the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. The extant archaeological site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. Estimate: 500 USD |  |
