Owner Comments:
Military coinage of the Punic War, struck to pay Carthaginian soldiers and Bretti mercenaries. It plainly imitates the circulating janiform Roman silver didrachms struck before the war, substituting the Punic goddess Tanit for the Roman dioscurii twins on the obverse.
Bruttium, Carthaginian Occupation EL 3/8 Shekel. Circa 215-205 BC. Janiform female heads (Tanit?), wearing wreaths of grain / Zeus, holding thunderbolt in right hand and sceptre in left, standing to right in quadriga driven by Nike, who holds reins. Jenkins & Lewis 487-493 (Capua); SNG ANS 146 (Capua); SNG Copenhagen 357; HN Italy 2013; HGC 1, 1382; CNG 120, 37 (hammer: USD 6,500). 2.53g, 14mm, 1h.
From the Italo Vecchi Collection;
Ex Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions, E-Auction 64, 13 January 2019, lot 104. (Hammered 1800 GBP)