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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silphium Addict, post: 6575838, member: 116882&quot;]Great overstrike! There is a &quot;prequel&quot; for your &quot;undertype&quot; shekel. If you look at&nbsp; the lower right reverse, there is the remains of a horse&#039;s foreleg, back of neck and ear. Here is my example of the same type:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1264309[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Libyan Revolt 241-240 BC</p><p>AR Shekel 7.3 gm</p><p>O: head Tanit left</p><p>R: horse standing right, Punic M and 3 pellets below</p><p>SNG Cop 237</p><p>Overstruck on SNG Cop 187 (Obv with Tanit forehead, nose and chin lowe left; Rev with horse foreleg to right)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the undertype:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1264314[/ATTACH] </p><p>Carthage 255-241 BC</p><p>AR Shekel 7.2 gm</p><p>O: head Tanit left</p><p>R: horse standing right with head turned back</p><p>SNG Cop 187</p><p><br /></p><p>So, some of the SNG 236-237 (head Tanit/horse standing) were overstruck on earlier Carthaginian SNG Cop 187 shekels, either by Carthage to initially pay the mercenaries in 240 BC or by the mercenaries after being paid with the SNG Cop 187 coins. Some SNG 236-237 coins were subsequently undertypes for SNG Cop 239-242 (head Herakles/lion walking right) by the mercenaries when joined by Libyans. </p><p>Overall, an interesting sequence that follows the events of the Libyan Revolt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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