Tetradrachm Punic military mint

These tetradrachms are associated with the Punic military coinage struck to pay mercenary forces during Carthage's intensive campaigns in Sicily — a theater of near-constant warfare against Syracuse throughout the late fourth century. The mint itself remains unlocalized; whether it operated in North Africa or in Sicily closer to the armies it served is a question the numismatic record has not settled. Kraay and Hirmer's attribution acknowledges the uncertainty without resolving it.

The Attic weight standard adopted here was a deliberate choice, making the coins directly commensurable with the Greek mercenary pay already circulating on Sicily.