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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1279991, member: 39&quot;]Hmm, the horse&#039;s head sure is a symbol of Carthage and the Phoenicians, but it was used on Phoenician coins from Sicily for example as well. (I am not a collector of ancients, and I don&#039;t like being &quot;lumped together&quot; here either, but I have that 20 lepta coin. And I do like to know what is depicted on the pieces I have. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) Now Sicily could indeed be considered part of the ancient Greek world.</p><p><br /></p><p>When it comes to using &quot;foreign&quot; symbols on modern Greek coins, there is one pretty bad case: the 100 drachmes coin issued in the &#039;90s (dated 1990 to 2000). It shows the Vergina Sun that Macedonia picked as the symbol of the country when it became independent from Yugoslavia. In the conflict about Greek Macedonia vs Yugoslav-and-then-independent Macedonia (FYROM), Greece wanted to keep them from using that symbol. (Vergina is, and the Sun/Star was found, in Greek Macedonia.) So they used it on a Greek circulation coin which was first issued after the Republic of Macedonia became independent. No problem - they simply put the date &quot;1990&quot; on the piece ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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