1/10 Stater

Carthaginian fractional gold of this period was almost certainly struck to pay mercenary forces — the city-state relied almost entirely on hired soldiers and needed coin denominations small enough for individual daily wage payments. The timing aligns with Carthage's sustained military campaigns in Sicily against the Greek cities, a grinding series of conflicts that stretched the treasury across multiple fronts simultaneously.

The SNG Lockett and McClean references place this piece within a well-documented but numerically scarce group; surviving examples turn up almost exclusively in Sicilian and North African hoard contexts.