1/4 Shekel

Struck during the Second Punic War, this fractional silver issue falls squarely within the period of Hannibal's Italian campaign — a conflict that stretched Carthaginian military financing to its limits and drove substantial coin production to pay mercenary forces operating far from North Africa. Small silver fractions like this one were essential for day-to-day troop payments, where full shekels were too valuable for minor transactions.

SNG Copenhagen 369 places this piece within a well-documented Carthaginian series, though attribution of specific mint sites remains contested between Carthage proper and Spanish or Sicilian field mints.