Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 54. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Carthaginian occupation. Circa 215-205 BC. AR Half Shekel (4.15 g, 3h). Second Punic War issue. Wreathed head of Tanit left / Horse standing right; above, solar disk with uraei. Jenkins, Some U1; Robinson, Second p. 44, 3; HN Italy 2016. VF, dark find patina, struck with worn reverse die.

Struck during Hannibal’s occupation of Bruttium.