CARTHAGE, First Punic War. Circa 264-241 BC. EL 1½ Shekels – Tridrachm (22mm, 10.67 g, 12h). Reduced standard. Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with twelve pendants / Horse standing right, head left; ouraios above; pellet behind foot of leading hind leg. Jenkins & Lewis Group Xb, 446X, 11 (this coin); CNP 41i; MAA 30; SNG Copenhagen 996; Bement 600; Jameson 923; de Luynes 3747–8; Weber 8491. Toned, flan cracks, faint brush marks, edge marks. Good VF.
From the Weise Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen GmbH (21 October 2004), lot 960; Hess (24 November 1937), lot 70.