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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 3098818, member: 75525&quot;]I picked up an unidentified coin at a recent show. It was described as a drachm or hemidrachm. It is 2.47 grams and 14.7 X 15.9 mm with a 12 die axis. The coin looks like a Brutium Punic 3/8th Shekel. The Shekel is electrum, but my coin looks to be silver and looks to be struck over another coin??? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]783936[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]783937[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The following assumes the coin is a fraction of a 3/8th of a shekel issued by Carthage and used in Bruttium during the Rome’s 2nd war with Carthage.</p><p><br /></p><p>BRUTTIUM, Carthaginian occupation. Circa 216-211 BC. EL (Silver?) 3/8 Shekel</p><p>Based on one letter at 12 on obverse, may be struck over another coin???</p><p>Obv - Janiform female heads, wearing wreaths of grain</p><p>Rev - Zeus, holding thunderbolt in right hand, scepter in left, standing in quadriga right, driven by Nike, who holds reins.</p><p>2.5 g</p><p>14.7 X 15.9 mm</p><p>12 h</p><p>F, light gray / yellow tone, well worn or poorly struck. Rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>References (note I have the first 4 books, I do not see the coin in Crawford) Two links with more info are below.</p><p>Jenkins &amp; Lewis, Carthaginian Gold and Electrum Coins, Group XVI, numbers 487 - 493 (Capua)</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.&nbsp; J&amp;L mention 47 coins tabulated by Bahrfeldt in Die romische Goldmunzpragung.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.&nbsp; J&amp;L give % gold for one coin = 27% (somewhere I read, but can not find now,&nbsp; that the %gold&nbsp; dropped into the teens late in the war)</p><p>HN Italy 2013</p><p>Grueber, BMCRR – Romano Campanian Coinage, Half Stater, No 145 – 149</p><p>Sear Greek Coins, Vol 1 Europe, 287</p><p><br /></p><p>SNG Copenhagen 357</p><p>Robinson, Punic p. 40 (Capua)</p><p>SNG ANS 146 (Capua)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/643560.14_CRAWFORD_The_Tiriolo_hoard.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/643560.14_CRAWFORD_The_Tiriolo_hoard.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/643560.14_CRAWFORD_The_Tiriolo_hoard.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://livyarrow.org/tag/roman-coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://livyarrow.org/tag/roman-coins/" rel="nofollow">https://livyarrow.org/tag/roman-coins/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>the following coin is acsearch</p><p>[ATTACH=full]783938[/ATTACH] </p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=bruttium+janiform&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=bruttium+janiform&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=bruttium+janiform&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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