Æ16

Carthaginian bronze coinage of this period was struck primarily to pay mercenary forces — Libyan, Iberian, and Celtic troops who had no use for Punic electrum and demanded fungible small change. The timing places this piece squarely within Carthage's expanding military commitments in Sicily, where decades of grinding conflict with Syracuse consumed enormous resources in metal and men.

SNG Copenhagen 107 is among the smaller module bronzes of the series, consistent with fractional use in a military pay context rather than civic commerce.