Stater

These staters were struck to fund Carthage's military operations in Sicily, where the city maintained contested control over the western third of the island throughout the fourth century. The gold likely originated from trans-Saharan trade networks and tribute from subject peoples in North Africa rather than local Carthaginian mining.

J&L#18 places this among the earliest of the Sicilian-influenced Carthaginian gold issues — the die-cutting showing clear influence from contemporary Syracusan engravers, some of whom may have been working directly for Carthaginian moneyers.