Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 39. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Carthaginian Occupation. Circa 216-211 BC. EL 3/8 Shekel (2.75 gm). Janiform female heads, wearing wreaths of grain / Zeus, holding thunderbolt and sceptre, standing in quadriga right, driven by Nike. Robinson, Punic pg. 40 (Capua); Jenkins & Lewis 487 (same obverse die; Capua); SNG ANS 146 (Capua); SNG Lloyd -; SNG Copenhagen -; Jameson -; Gulbenkian -; Pozzi -; Weber -; HN Italy 2013. VF. Rare. ($2000)

From the James A. Ferrendelli Collection. Ex Spink 120 (9-10 July 1997), lot 12.

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), pg. 274, and HN Italy). While it is likely they were minted in Bruttium by the Carthaginians, there is speculation that they may have been struck in Carthage and transported to South Italy for Hannibal's use (see G.K. Jenkins, Studi per Laura Breglia, Parte I, Generalia-Numismatica Greca. Bollettino di Numismatica, Supplemento al No. 4. Rome, 1987, pp. 223-4).