½ Shekel
Features
| Issuer |
Carthage
(Zeugitana)  |
|---|---|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 220 BC - 225 BC |
| Value | ½ Shekel |
| Currency | Shekel |
| Composition | Srebro |
| Weight | 3.22 g |
| Diameter | 18 mm |
| Shape | Okrągły (nieregularny) |
| Technique | Młotkowana |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 192686 |
| References | BMC Walk 1# 29 John Walker; 1941. Catalogue of the Muhammadan Coins in the British Museum / Volume 1. Catalogue of the Arab-Sassanian Coins (Umaiyad Governors in the East, Arab-Ephthalites, ‘Abassid governors in Tabaristan and Bukhara). British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Copenhagen# 383 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes).Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). |
Obverse
(en) Head of Melkart left, wearing laurel wreath.
Reverse
(en) Elephant advancing right; Punic A in exergue.
Lettering: a
Comments
(en) Carthage or Sicilian mint. Struck during the expedition to Sicily,
cf. Visonà 55 (shekel); Walker 29; CNP 447; SNG Newham Davis 107; Burnett, Enna 129.
These coins were originally attributed to the Punic mint in Spain, but subsequent hoard evidence has established that they were struck either in Carthage or a Carthaginian mint in Sicily during the Second Punic War (see A. Walker, "Some Hoards from Sicily and a Carthaginian Issue of the Second Punic War" in Studies Mildenberg, p. 275, and note 6). Burnett (Enna) argued, based on the fixed die axes of the coins, that this issue was struck in Carthage, but for circulation in Sicily. (source: CNG Triton XXIII auction catalog)
cf. Visonà 55 (shekel); Walker 29; CNP 447; SNG Newham Davis 107; Burnett, Enna 129.
These coins were originally attributed to the Punic mint in Spain, but subsequent hoard evidence has established that they were struck either in Carthage or a Carthaginian mint in Sicily during the Second Punic War (see A. Walker, "Some Hoards from Sicily and a Carthaginian Issue of the Second Punic War" in Studies Mildenberg, p. 275, and note 6). Burnett (Enna) argued, based on the fixed die axes of the coins, that this issue was struck in Carthage, but for circulation in Sicily. (source: CNG Triton XXIII auction catalog)
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