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Lot number: 89

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Lot description:


SICULO-PUNIC, "The Camp". Circa 300-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.72 g, 6h). Possibly Entella mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Head of horse left; pellet to left, palm tree to right, MḤSBM ( "People of the Camp" in Punic) below. Jenkins, Punic, Series 5b, 343 (O110/R281 – this coin referenced and illustrated); CNP 272b; BAR Issue 5; HGC 2, 293 corr. (varying legend). Old collection tone, a couple of tiny spots of die rust on obverse. Good VF.

From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Manhattan Sale III (3 January 2012), lot 103 (hammer $2500); Kirk Davis FPL 39 (Summer 2002), no. 22; Kirk Davis FPL 35 (Summer 2001), no. 16; Numismatica Ars Classica L (18 May 2001), lot 1276; Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 396; G. K. Jenkins Collection ('Collection Y' cited in Jenkins).


Estimate: 2000 USD