Contemporaneous with the Carthaginian Issues in Sicily
Largest Silver Denomination Struck in Carthage

Triton XVIII, Lot: 403. Estimate $10000. Sold for $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARTHAGE, First Punic War. Circa 264-241 BC. BI Trishekel (30.5mm, 18.82 g, 12h). Reduced standard. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with pendants / Horse standing right; palm tree in background. MAA 43; CNP 161; Müller, Afrique 100; SNG Copenhagen 189 var. (pellets); SNG Lloyd –; Basel –; Gulbenkian –; de Luynes 3773. Near EF, toned, light marks. Very rare.

Ex Georges Bouchereau & Robert Boyer Collection.

The trishekel was the largest silver denomination struck in Carthage (although of billon quality), and was used for only three issues, all during the First Punic War: one with palm and horse, the other two with uraeus and horse.