Struck During Hannibal’s Occupation of Bruttium

225, Lot: 9. Estimate $200. Sold for $420. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Carthaginian occupation. Circa 215-205 BC. AR ½ Shekel (18mm, 3.40 g, 5h). Second Punic War issue. Wreathed head of Tanit left / Horse standing right; solar disk above, O below. Jenkins, Some U1 var. (no O); Robinson, Second p. 45, 4; HN Italy 2016; SNG Copenhagen 361-2. VF, toned.

From the Jörg Müller Collection. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 32 (12 November 1985), lot 27.