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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doucet, post: 1927063, member: 46490&quot;]That&#039;s a very nice coin vlaha.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like the coinage of Carthage and have several.</p><p><br /></p><p>This type seems to have been made with several marks including pellets in various places, the O, the palm(like stevex&#039;s), the caduceus, a small helmeted head, and several letters. I have no idea what they represent, I wish I did.</p><p><br /></p><p>My example is similar to the OP coin, but doesn&#039;t seem to have a mark, unless it&#039;s under the dirt.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]331782[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s some interesting info about Carthage. Copied from here:</p><p><a href="http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Punic_map/Zeugitana_map/Zeugitana.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Punic_map/Zeugitana_map/Zeugitana.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Punic_map/Zeugitana_map/Zeugitana.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe this explains the horse on Carthage coins??</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Carthage, two foundation myths</p><p><br /></p><p>1215 BC some 30 years before the fall of Troy, Carthage is founded by Zoros and Karkhedon.</p><p>Zoros (Azoros) is a derivation of the name Tyre (=Sor or Sur, &#039;rock&#039; in Phoenician).</p><p>Karkhedon is the Greek transcription of Qart Hadasht the &#039;New Town&#039; founded in Cyprus.</p><p><br /></p><p>814 BC Carthage founded by Elissa.</p><p>Elissa&#039;s husband was killed by her brother King Pygmalion of Tyre.</p><p>She fled with loyal followers to Cyprus and later to Libya.</p><p>Here she was called Dido (Deido, &#039;wanderer&#039;) and founded Carthage.</p><p>Tanit (the Latin Juno) indicated the spot by a horse&#039;s head in the ground.</p><p>The Tyrians bought as much land from the Libyans as they could encircle</p><p>with the skin of a bull, for which reason it was called Byrsa (bursa, Greek for ox-hide).</p><p>The skin cut into very fine strips covered about 4 kilometres in circumference!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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