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Message:: [QUOTE="Edessa, post: 4762521, member: 84065"]Here is one more, this time one of the smaller modules from Carthage or a Sardinian mint that catalogs as MAA 57. But I can't really tell what the Punic letter in the field is supposed to be. The seller considered it a poorly rendered "dot". But it appears that the Celator engraved two strokes in the shape of an "X" very deliberately. I can't tell if this is supposed to be a "shin" or perhaps it is just an incomplete or poorly executed "aleph", "waw", "mem" or "taw". I have searched a bit and can't find examples that don't include a longer downstroke. As a "shin" it doesn't really look much like the example in SNG Cop as number 153. I see a few of this listed as with "undetermined letter". Perhaps this will have to be one of those. Carthage. Circa 300-264 BC. Æ Shekel (20mm, 5.17g, 12h). Carthage or Sardinian mint. Obv: Wreathed head of Tanit left. Rev: Horse head right; uncertain letter below chin (uncertain Punic letter). Ref: MAA 57-; HGC 2, 1671. [ATTACH=full]1161335[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]