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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3443903, member: 56859&quot;]Interesting article, but be aware that copying and pasting that much content from an article, no matter how well-intentioned, is specifically prohibited by <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-talk-rules.34131/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-talk-rules.34131/">CT rules</a>.&nbsp; Instead you are supposed to just post a link, or a few sentences and a link.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER], I spent a bit of time on this yesterday.&nbsp; At first I thought it was overstruck on an Akragas eagle/crab didrachm because the eagle&#039;s tail looks like the portion of the original strike seen on and around the nose of your Herakles.&nbsp; However, it would have to be a very off-center strike and the reverse of the Akragas coin doesn&#039;t fit.&nbsp; Plus, it would be a very strange coin to use because in the case of other Libyan revolt shekels for which the overstruck coin is identifiable, the original coin was a Tanit/horse shekel.&nbsp; None of the listings I found identified exactly which Tanit/horse shekel but I assume they were shekels. </p><p><br /></p><p>Turning attention to finding a likely Carthaginian Tanit/horse host coin, the problem is with the coin size and the direction of the horse&#039;s head.&nbsp; The shekels of appropriate time and weight have a reverted horse head and that wouldn&#039;t fit with your coin, plus the striated marks over the nose of Herakles don&#039;t look like they came from the style of Tanit on those shekels.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a theory... perhaps it is from an underweight or slightly clipped &quot;1 1/4&quot; shekel such as <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=175143" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=175143" rel="nofollow">this one from CNG&#039;s archives</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/86000039.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>CARTHAGE, Libyan Revolt. Circa 241-238 BC. BI 1¼ Shekels (20mm, 9.20 g, 12h). Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, single-pendant earring, and necklace / Horse standing right; IIIIIH above. MAA 49; SNG Copenhagen 188. EF, lightly toned. Choice flan for issue.</p><p>Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 639; Tkalec &amp; Rauch (15 April 1985), lot 132.</p><p><br /></p><p>The wheat grain awns are prominent on this type of coin and resemble the markings on and around the nose of Herakles on your coin.&nbsp; The horse&#039;s head is facing forward rather than reverted, so that is a better match for your reverse.&nbsp; Perhaps there is a trace of Tanit&#039;s earring as well (circled in blue below).&nbsp; I cannot explain the apparent &quot;E&quot; on your lion&#039;s flank though.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]914445[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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