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18 May 2010
Widder Hotel, Zürich
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Estimate: 7500 CHF
Hammer Price:  Unsold
Lot 19

SICILY, “RSMLQRT”. Circa 340-320 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 16.90 g 12), Kephaloidion (?, or a mint moving with the Carthaginian army in Sicily). Charioteer, holding the reins with his left hand and a goad in his right, driving quadriga galloping to left; above, Nike flying right to crown the driver. Rev. Head of Tanit to left, wearing wreath of grain leaves, triple pendant earring and pearl necklace; around, two dolphins swimming upwards to left and one swimming downwards to right. Jenkins, Punic I, p.67, 55 (this coin cited). SNG Lockett 742 . Of particularly fine style, nicely toned and very sharply struck. Flan crack, and with both sides slightly double struck, otherwise, extremely fine.


From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection, ex Hess-Divo 307, 7 June 2007, 1104 and Monnaies et Médailles 54, 26 October 1978, 144, from the collection of C. Gillet, Monnaies et Médailles 43, 12 November 1970, 60, ex Hess, Lucerne, 7 March 1935, 251, Hess 209, 12 April 1932, 15, 202, 28 October 1930, 2268, from the collection of H. Vogel, II, Hess 194, 25 March 1929, 131, ex J. Hirsch 34, 5 May 1914, 152, and from the collection of G. de Ciccio, Sambon & Canessa, 19 December 1907, 488 .

This is one of those wonderful coins that goes back in collectors’ hands well into the 19th century! Even without the lovely toning, the traces of sealing wax in the flan cracks show that molds for plaster casts were made from it, either for study purposes or for the plates that illustrated this coin in so many fine auctions. The fact that it was owned by G. de Ciccio and Charles Gillet, both well-known for their appreciation of style, gives this coin a special cachet.

Online bidding closes: 18 May 2010, 09:00:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 28 Mar 2024, 09:40:55 CET Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:Unsold

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