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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24650854, member: 26430&quot;][ATTACH=full]1569704[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>Greek World (N. Africa, Late Classical). Zeugitania, Carthage EL Stater</b> (19mm, 7.43g), c. 310-290 BCE.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv</b>: Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain, triple-pendant earring and necklace with nine pendants.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev</b>. Horse standing right on ground-line.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Ref</b>: Jenkins Group V, 280 (avg 55-60% gold content); Alexandroupoulos 365, 12; same dies as <a href="https://archive.org/details/auctionxxviispri0027numi/page/n123/mode/1up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/auctionxxviispri0027numi/page/n123/mode/1up" rel="nofollow">NFA XXVIII (1992), 597</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Prov</b>: Ex <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6387500" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6387500" rel="nofollow">Gorny &amp; Mosch 265 (2019), 668</a> [ex Sammlung Süddeutschem Privatbesitz, H.I. (?)]; <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5248691" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5248691" rel="nofollow">Jacquier 44 (2018), Lot 138</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Notes</b>: Coin-in-hand video: <a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/pbkk8PK" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imgur.com/gallery/pbkk8PK" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/gallery/pbkk8PK</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Graffitto</b>: Similar examples with triangles/deltas (?) on Carthage EL Staters from this period (Jenkins &amp; Lewis Group V-VII). Related somehow? <b>1</b>. Munzen &amp; Medaillen FPL 462 (Jan 1984), 28 (triangle twice, above &amp; below horse); <b>2</b>. Carradice &amp; Price (1995: pl. 24) 300 (BM ex.); <b>3</b>. <a href="https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/viewer/22252/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/viewer/22252/" rel="nofollow">C. Platt, Hôtel Drouot 21 April 1914 Sale, Lot 15</a> (similar type, triangle graffito above horse); <b>4</b>. <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1141195" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1141195" rel="nofollow">Sontag 12, Lot 48</a> (triangles, above/below, ACSearch); <b>5</b>. <a href="https://archive.org/details/harlanjberkltd700070harl/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/harlanjberkltd700070harl/" rel="nofollow">HJB BBS 70, Lot 10</a>; <b>6</b>. <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=207950" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=207950" rel="nofollow">CNG 90, Lot 372</a> (very similar type, arrow/wedge shaped graffito in the same place); <b>7</b>. possibly (not noted, hard to tell from plates) <a href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/ars_classica1933_07_03/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/ars_classica1933_07_03/" rel="nofollow">Ars Classica #16, 3 July 1933, Lot 942</a> ;</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><b>NEXT</b>: <i>More <b>GRAFFITTI </b>Please!</i></font></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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