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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silphium Addict, post: 25941970, member: 116882&quot;][USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER] - very nice double shekel.</p><p><br /></p><p>These serrated silver double shekels are rare and the shekels are even more rare.</p><p>Here is a great article by Paolo Visona about these coins:</p><p><a href="https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=snr-003%3A2007%3A86%3A%3A243" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=snr-003%3A2007%3A86%3A%3A243" rel="nofollow">The serrated silver coinage of Carthage</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The coins are 92-99% silver. There are 8 obverse dies and 67 reverse dies for the double shekel. Such a large volume suggests they may have been struck as part of the indemnity of 10,000 talents paid to Rome with the last payment being 151 BC.</p><p>However, the coins were definitely used during the third Punic War. Archaeologic finds in Tunisia include:</p><p>Canis Island 1916 (IGCH 2301) after 146 BC: ~150 AR coins with AR jewelry and fragments - 18-21 dishekels; 132 denarii (to 146 BC)</p><p>La Goulette 1920 (IGCH 2302) 146 BC: 12 AR dishekels</p><p>2 dishekels and 1 shekel found together in 1994 excavation of destruction layer at Carthage</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin is <i>CNP </i>62e with a crescent over a pellet between the horse forelegs on the reverse. It looks the most like Visona 117 (O1/R48). Here is the Helbing image:</p><p><a href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/otto_helbing_nachf1927_10_24/0343/image,info" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/otto_helbing_nachf1927_10_24/0343/image,info" rel="nofollow">Otto Helbing Nachf. &lt;München&gt; [Editor]; Otto Helbing Nachf. [Editor]: Auktions-Katalog / Otto Helbing Nachf.: Sammlung † Ludwig Jäger, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Elsass; Sammlung † Geh.-Rat Prof. Robert Piloty, Würzburg, Bistum Würzburg: Münzen u. Medaillen vieler Zeiten und Länder... ; Mittelaltermünzen ; Sammlung † Hofrat Hermann etc. ; griechische Münzen u. römische Münzen ; numismatische Bücher und Münzschränke$dAuktion ab Montag, den 24. Oktober 1927 (München, 1927)</a></p><p>It doesn&#039;t appear to be an exact die match. It could be Visona 116 (O1/R47) but the coin is not illustrated in Macdonald, George. <i>Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection.</i> University of Glasgow, vol. 3: <i>Further Asia, Africa, Western Europe</i>. or online at the Hunterian site.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is mine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1651074[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage</p><p>160-146 BC</p><p>AR dishekel</p><p>13.12 g, 25 mm, 12 h</p><p>O: head Tanit left wearing grain wreath, single-pendant earring and bead necklace</p><p>R:&nbsp; horse stepping right; head Hermes left wearing petasos below</p><p>CNP 62h</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t know when I purchased mine over 20 years ago, but it is a very rare variety as Visona could not locate the specimen, the only recorded example. It is Muller et al <i>Numismatique de l&#039;ancienne Afrique </i>123a.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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