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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silphium Addict, post: 7916195, member: 116882&quot;][USER=99531]@Nvb[/USER] - great addition to your collection!</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins were traditionally called dishekels, but Cathy Lorber refers to them as tridrachms in her excellent article about a large hoard of these coins sold mainly by Harlan Berk starting in 1995: Lorber CC&nbsp; &quot;A Hoard of Punic “Horse and Palm” Billon Tridrachms&quot; in <i>Coin Hoards</i>: Volume IX - Greek Hoards. Meadows A, Wartenberg U (eds) London, 2002. pp 275-290, plates 54-66. They are usually 10.8-116 gm with a wide range of 8-13 gms. The coins are about 15-16% silver and Lorber dated them to the Second Punic War ~215-205 BC.</p><p>Your coin is Lorber Group 2 (young head with single pendant earring) and probably from the hoard although I did not see an image of your coin in the plates.</p><p>Here is my Group 2 example from HJB in 1995:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1367809[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage tridrachm 10.38 gm</p><p>Lorber group 2, 33 (this coin)</p><p>&nbsp;HJ Berk BB 88, lot 353 11/28/1995</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my Lorber Group 4 with a more typical Punic style:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1367818[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage tridrachm 11.53 gm</p><p>Lorber group 4[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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