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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silphium Addict, post: 8135967, member: 116882&quot;][USER=76266]@longshot[/USER] Very nice coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>You didn&#039;t list the weight, but I assume it is ~8-9 gm. There may be traces of a grain ear at the lower left. If so, it would be Scheu, Bronze 13; HN Italy 1978. Same as the coin of&nbsp; [USER=74863]@Collecting Nut[/USER] but different reverse die.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I do not consider the coin &quot;humble&quot; as it is well centered and a great style. I also see a coin that was circulating during the peak of Carthaginian power in Bruttium, but Rome had survived and was starting to retake some of Campania and Apulia. Were the people who used the coin still confident they would prevail in their revolt against Roman domination or could they see the tide starting to turn? A great piece of history!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my example of the same type:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1417717[/ATTACH]</p><p>Bretti - grain ear series 214-211 BC</p><p>AE drachm 8.53 gm, 21 mm</p><p>O: laureate head Zeus right; grain ear lower left</p><p>R: eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left; crescent above; ΒΡΕΤ downward upper right; ΤΙΩΝ upward to left</p><p>Laffaille 72 (this coin); Scheu 14; HN Italy 1978</p><p>ex-Maurice Laffaille, M&amp;M 76:72 09/19/1991; Ars Classica XVI:298 07/03/1933[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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