Shekel - Hasdrubal the Fair

Ákra Leuká — generally identified with modern Alicante — served as a Barcid stronghold on the Iberian southeast coast, and this issue dates to the final years of Hasdrubal the Fair's command there before he succeeded Hamilcar Barcas following the latter's death in battle against the Orissi in 229 BC. Hasdrubal consolidated Carthaginian power in Iberia through diplomacy as much as force, notably concluding the Ebro Treaty with Rome around 226 BC, which temporarily defined spheres of influence on the peninsula.

He was assassinated by a Celtiberian slave in 221 BC, ending a command of roughly eight years.