Melita, Sicily, AE Semis, 44-36 BC. 5.31 g. C. Arruntanus Balbus, propraetor. 

MELITAIWN, veiled and draped female bust (Astarte?) left, wearing stephane. 
C ARRVNTANVS BALB PROPR (RV ligate), curule chair. 

RPC I 672; Calciati 14; SNG Hunter 212-213; SNG Evelpidis 750-751; Laffaille 272; SNG Cop (North Africa) 473-474.

With permission of Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH auction 318, Lot 453, March 2019.
Ex NAC 64, lot 2115, (2012); ex Triton XI, lot 423 (2008).