My first Punic coin

Its always interesting to consider how differently history could have turned out had a few military struggles gone the other way… Gaul and Carthage to name a couple.

Some great coins posted in this thread… a couple of them have been on my want list for some time - with a Siculo-Punic Tet and the Av/Electrum stater being right up there

 

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VGO.DVCKS, Thank you & Alegandron for the kind words . I won the coin at a Heritage auction 7 years ago & paid a hefty price for the coin, $1,762.50, including the buyers premium. It is one of the few classical Greek coins I kept in my collection. Better examples are fetching shocking prices today. The coin pictured below, CNG 118, lot 50, recently sold for $12,000.00 !

SICILY, Entella. Punic issues. Circa 320/15 - 300 BC. AR Tetradrachm: 26 mm, 16.71 gm, 3 h. Ex Father & Son Collection; Ex Nomos 19, 2019; Ex CNG 61, 2002.