Zeugitana, Carthage, Silver Half-Shekel
North Africa, Zeugitana, Carthage, Second Punic War Issue (c. 213-210 B.C.), Silver Half-Shekel. Struck at Carthage or at an uncertain mint on Sicily. Laureate male head (Melqart? / Hannibal?) facing left, rev. elephant walking right, Punic A(leph) in exergue, 3.22g., 12h (A. Burnett, "The Enna Hoard and the Silver Coinage of the Syracusan Democracy", SNR 62 (1983), 120 (these dies)). Some silver chloride deposits towards edge between 10 and 2 o'clock, and a small area on cheek, very light metal-flaw on obverse, otherwise unusually well-struck for this enigmatic issue on a broad flan of good metal, light iridescent toning, extremely fine.
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North Africa, Zeugitana, Carthage, Second Punic War Issue (c. 213-210 B.C.), Silver Half-Shekel. Struck at Carthage or at an uncertain mint on Sicily. Laureate male head (Melqart? / Hannibal?) facing left, rev. elephant walking right, Punic A(leph) in exergue, 3.22g., 12h (A. Burnett, "The Enna Hoard and the Silver Coinage of the Syracusan Democracy", SNR 62 (1983), 120 (these dies)). Some silver chloride deposits towards edge between 10 and 2 o'clock, and a small area on cheek, very light metal-flaw on obverse, otherwise unusually well-struck for this enigmatic issue on a broad flan of good metal, light iridescent toning, extremely fine.
