Siculo-Punic Dekadrachm (silver coin replica) 270 - 260 BC.
OBV: Head of Tanit left, wreathed with corn, wearing necklace and one-drop earring.
R: Pegasos flying right, beneath Punic legend. Original worth c. £3000.

This large silver coin, equivalent to five Shekels, was struck by Carthagians in Sicily during First Punic War against Rome. This issue shows weakening of Greek influence in Carthagian Sicily. The head is clearly Tanit, the chief goddess of Carthage. She is presented in a style derived from the earlier Gold and Electrum of that city. The reverse is copied from the Pegasos of the Corinthian Staters which had appeared in Sicily at the end of the Fourth Century to support Sicilian Greeks in their war against Carthage. On this Dekadrachm, however, the horse has a certain stylized treatment alien to the Greek prototype.