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Hannibalic Electrum
Lot # 106
Greek Italy. Bruttium, Carthaginians in South-West Italy. EL 3/8 Shekel, c. 216-211 BC. Obv. Janiform female heads, each wearing grain ear wreath. Rev. Zeus, holding thunderbolt and scepter, standing in quadriga right, driven by Nike, who stands beside him, holding reins. HN Italy 2013; SNG ANS 146 (Capua); Robinson, Second pl. V, 3 (Capua); Jenkins & Lewis 487 (Capua). EL. 2.50 g. 15.00 mm. RR. Very rare. Nice example of this fascinating issue; brilliant and lightly toned; minor roughness on obverse, deposits/oxidations. Good VF/About EF. 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), p. 274, and HN Italy). While it is likely that this issue was minted in Bruttium by the Carthaginians, there is a possibility that these coins were 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).