Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 750. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARTHAGE. Circa 160-149/6 BC. BI Serrate Double Shekel (13.21 gm, 12h). Carthage mint. Wreathed head of Tanit left / Horse standing right; pellet below raised hoof. Jenkins & Lewis pl. 28, 14; MAA 100b; cf. SNG Copenhagen 403 (pellet below back legs). Good VF, toned. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

From the last issue of Carthage before its destruction by a vengeful Rome following the Third Punic War (149-146 BC). The serrate edge is found on both electrum and billon coins of the period, and is similar to the flan treatments of contemporary Macedonian and Seleukid bronze coins. The reason for this added detail remains a mystery.