Sale: CNG 64, Lot: 489. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003.  Sold For $330. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ZEUGITANA, Carthage. Second Punic War. Circa 221-201 BC. AR Half-Shekel (3.53 gm). Punic mint in Bruttium. Struck circa 215-205 BC. Wreathed head of Tanit left / Horse standing right, uraei above. Jenkins & Lewis pl. 28, 3; Robinson, Second, pg. 44, 3; Crawford, CMRR, pg. 67; SNG Copenhagen 359. Good VF. ($400)

Although the mint for this lot and the following lot is conventionally placed in Sicily, Crawford convincingly places it in Bruttium near the end of Hannibal's time there.