Hexas

Eryx sat atop a mountain in western Sicily, a stronghold whose control shifted repeatedly between Elymian, Carthaginian, and Greek hands. This bronze was struck during a period when Carthage was pressing hard into the island following its 409 BC sack of Selinus and Himera — the mint at Eryx operating under conditions of acute political instability, which likely explains the relative scarcity of well-preserved civic bronzes from this precise phase of the city's output.