Hannibal in Bruttium

CNG 100, Lot: 7. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Carthaginian occupation. Circa 215-205 BC. EL Three-eighths Shekel (15mm, 2.62 g, 12h). Janiform head of Tanit, wearing wreath of grain ears / Zeus, brandishing thunderbolt and holding scepter, in quadriga driven right by Nike. Robinson, Second pl. V, 3 (Capua); Jenkins & Lewis Group XVI, 488 (Capua) = BMCRR 147 (Capua); HN Italy 2013. VF, a few marks and scratches. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions X (21 March 1990), lot 426.

This coinage, previously attributed to Capua in Campania, has been conclusively reattributed to the Carthaginians in Bruttium under Hannibal (see M.H. Crawford, "Provenances, Attributions, and Chronology of Some Early Italian Coinages," CH IX [2002], p. 274, and HN Italy). While it is likely that this issue was minted in Bruttium by the Carthaginians, there is a possibility that these coins were struck in Carthage and transported to South Italy for Hannibal's use (see G.K. Jenkins, “Some coins of Hannibal’s time,” Studi per Laura Breglia, Parte I, Generalia-Numismatica Greca. Bollettino di Numismatica, Supplemento al No. 4. [Rome, 1987], pp. 223-4).