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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hamilcar Barca, post: 4753434, member: 104676&quot;]Some of mine.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1160344[/ATTACH]</p><p>North Africa, Carthage Æ15. Circa 400-350 BC. Wreathed head of Tanit left / Horse standing right; palm tree in background; to right, three pellets in triangle. MAA 18l; Jenkins &amp; Lewis 13; SNG Copenhagen 118. 2.94g, 15mm, 10h.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1160345[/ATTACH]</p><p>CARTHAGE. Circa 350-320 BC. Æ Unit (18mm, 4.88 g, 12h). Carthage mint. Palm tree, with two clusters of dates / Head of horse right. CNP 255; MAA 20; SNG Copenhagen 103-4. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1160346[/ATTACH]</p><p>Bruttium, Carthaginian Occupation AR Half-Shekel. Punic mint in Bruttium, circa 215-205 BC. Struck during the Second Punic War. Wreathed head of Tanit left / Horse standing right; solar disk above. Jenkins &amp; Lewis pl. 28, 3; Visona -; cf. Robinson, Second, pg. 45, 4; Crawford, CMRR, pg. 67; SNG Copenhagen 361-2; HN Italy 2016. 3.39g, 19mm, 5h.</p><p>Scratched but nobody is perfect.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1160347[/ATTACH]</p><p>CARTHAGE, Libyan Revolt. Circa 241-238 BC. Æ Shekel (23.5mm, 6.10 g, 9h). Mint on Sardinia. Wreathed head of Tanit left / Three grain ears; inverted crescent and pellet above, Punic gimel and mem flanking central ear. CNP 693i; cf. MAA 70; SNG Copenhagen 247–8. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1160350[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage. Mint in Sicily, Panormos(?) 405-380 BC. </p><p>Litra AR</p><p>17mm., 0,59g.</p><p>Wreathed head of Tanit left / Head of horse right. </p><p>Jenkins, Punic pl. 24 SNG Copenhagen - SNG ANS -</p><p><br /></p><p>Rough but much better in hand</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I like to collect Roman coins with a reverse reference to Carthage:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1160351[/ATTACH]</p><p>PHOENICIA, Tyre. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (28mm, 14.99 g, 6h). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Construction of Carthage: Dido standing left, holding ruler and scepter; to left, mason atop arched city gate; below, man digging with pick and murex shell. Cf. Rouvier 2534; cf. BMC 470. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1160352[/ATTACH]</p><p>PHOENICIA, Tyre. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ (27mm, 12.92 g, 12h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Sacrifice to Melqarth-Hercules: Dido standing right, both arms uplifted toward distyle temple to upper right, seen in perspective and containing upright club; to lower right, murex shell and lighted altar. Rouvier 2567; BMC –; AUB –.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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