• Finest Quality Ancient Greek, Roman & Byzantine Coins
  • Renaissance & 17th Century Dutch Medals
  • Auctions & Private Treaty Sales

Nomos 21

21 November 2020
Zunfthaus zur Saffran, Zurich

overview
Estimate: 22500 CHF
Hammer Price:  40000 CHF
Lot 94
Video

CARTHAGE. Circa 350-320 BC. Stater (Gold, 20 mm, 9.19 g, 4 h). Head of Tanit to left, wearing triple pendant earring, necklace, tied at the back and hung with seven pendants, and a wreath of grain leaves. Rev. Horse standing to left; in field to right, before horse’s fore legs, three pellets arranged as an inverted triangle. Cf. Jenkins & Lewis Group IIId, 22-23 (dies apparently unrecorded, with seven pendants in the necklace, no supplementary dots, and with the grain leaf in Tanit’s hair more upwards than diagonal). A remarkably attractive and well-struck example, quite truly as the NGSA cataloguer wrote: "une monnaie d’exception. Le plus bel exemplaire connu". Good extremely fine.

Ex Numismatica Genevensis 7, 27 November 2012, 293 (shown on the front cover) and Canessa & Luigi de Nicola, Listino Speciale, December 1950, 147 and from the Tunis find of 1949 (IGCH 2261 and Jenkins & Lewis II). [pre-2012 pedigree provided by J.V].

Online bidding closes: 21 Nov 2020, 11:00:00 CET Current Date & Time: 29 Mar 2024, 16:54:59 CET Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:40000 CHF

Pre-Bidding closes on 21 November 2020 at 11:00 CET. Live bidding starts at 14:00 CET and is EXCLUSIVELY available on biddr. Separate registration is required.

An error has occurred. This application may no longer respond until reloaded. Reload 🗙
Reconnecting, please wait...