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<p>[QUOTE="AncientJoe, post: 4732597, member: 44357"]I don't have an example of the Heracles obverse but here's my related coin. Carthage was embracing their Syracuse connection with this issue, depicting Tanit as Persephone/Arethusa:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158377[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Head of Tanit-Persephone l., wearing barley wreath, bar and triple pendant earring and dotted necklace; below chin, cockle shell and around, four dolphins. Rev. Horse's head l.; behind, palm tree with date clusters. Below neck truncation, 'mmhnt' in Punic characters.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>References</i></p><p><i>SNG Fitzwilliam 1488 (these dies)</i></p><p><i>SNG Copenhagen 85 (these dies)</i></p><p><i>Privately purchased from Ratto in 1945</i></p><p><i>Gorny & Mosch sale 228, 2015, 44</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="AncientJoe, post: 4732597, member: 44357"]I don't have an example of the Heracles obverse but here's my related coin. Carthage was embracing their Syracuse connection with this issue, depicting Tanit as Persephone/Arethusa: [ATTACH=full]1158377[/ATTACH] [I]Head of Tanit-Persephone l., wearing barley wreath, bar and triple pendant earring and dotted necklace; below chin, cockle shell and around, four dolphins. Rev. Horse's head l.; behind, palm tree with date clusters. Below neck truncation, 'mmhnt' in Punic characters. References SNG Fitzwilliam 1488 (these dies) SNG Copenhagen 85 (these dies) Privately purchased from Ratto in 1945 Gorny & Mosch sale 228, 2015, 44[/I][/QUOTE]
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