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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bcuda, post: 3648100, member: 105389&quot;]Thank you David</p><p>This is similar to the coins of (modern day Cadiz) , Gades , Gadir, but is different in the punic legend and is from Asido. Gadir surely had some influence it its style as it was not very far away.</p><p>I found this definition, and it is melkart.</p><p>Melqart was written in the Phoenician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad" rel="nofollow">abjad</a> as MLQRT (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_language" rel="nofollow">Phoenician</a>: ). The same name is also sometimes transcribed as <b>Melkart</b>, <b>Melkarth</b>, or <b>Melgart</b>. The name is a variant of MLK QRT ( ) and means &quot;King of the City&quot;.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melqart#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melqart#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_language" rel="nofollow">Akkadian</a>, his name was written <b>Milqartu</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>To the Greeks and the Romans, He was identified as Hercules.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not sure what would be the correct name to use in describing this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is 19mm .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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