Sicily Siculo-punic coinage. Tetradrachm circa 345-315 BC, Entella. Head of Arethusa left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; four dolphins around / Horse prancing left; palm tree in background. 17,16g. CNP 214; De Luynes 1436 (same dies); HGC 2, 283; Jenkins, Series 2d, 136 (O46/R122); SNG Fitzwilliam 1477 = Weber 1773 (same dies); SNG Lockett 1036 = Locker-Lampson 115 (same dies). A superb specimen. Provenance: NFA XXII (1 June 1989), 227. A distinguished American Collection, Leu 52 (15 May 1991), 34. CNG Triton XXIII (14 January 2020), 79. The term “Siculo-Punic” is used to describe coins struck in Sicily under Carthaginian control. The obverse recalls the coinage of Syracuse, with the head of Arethusa, one of the most prestigious types of Greek Sicily. The reverse, however, features the horse and palm tree, symbols closely associated with Carthage. The Latin term Punicus ultimately comes from the Greek word Phoinix, which referred both to the palm tree and to a Phoenician. The term was subsequently used to designate the Phoenician settlers established in Sicily and elsewhere. According to Jenkins, this typically Greek play on words was first employed on the coinage of Punic Sicily.