Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 1 Lot: 58, Jan 11-12, 2005. PUNIC SICILY: Machanat. Ca. 320 BC. AR tetradrachm (17.11 gm). PUNIC SICILY. Machanat. Ca. 320 BC or a few years later. Silver tetradrachm (17.11 gm). Head of Dido right, wearing pleated Phrygian tiara and hoop earring / Lion walking right, palm tree in background, Punic legend sh'mmhnt (people of the camp) below. Jenkins, SNR 56, 272 (O85/R226). Rizzo pl. lxvi, 8 (same dies). Kraay-Hirmer 208 (same dies). Luynes 1472 (same dies). Ex Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1996, lot 32. This is one of three special emissions portraying the Carthaginian foundress Dido, arguably the most expressive because its pleated Phrygian cap evokes a murex shell from Dido's native Tyre. Sold for $21,000 USD [ approx 15,960 EUR, £11,130 GBP Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com).