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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2269951, member: 72818&quot;]Despite my avatar, whenever I tried to replace now missing Punic coins to my collection, it was either&nbsp; too late to bid or my budget was shot to pieces .... but finally I succeeded.</p><p><br /></p><p>These examples are the typical Punic type-----Tanit and a horse combination, but stylistically varied one from the other....hardly surprising since 140 years separate them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first was struck 400-350 BC and circulated hundreds of years before the 1st Punic War (264-241 BC), while the second, struck circa 221-210 BC, was circulating just prior to and during the Hannibalic War of 218-201 BC.&nbsp; While I will dispense with any further historical information, I will note this bit of &#039;trivia&#039;---Carthage was more properly known as &#039;Qart Hadasht&#039; or &#039;New Town&#039; due to its Phoenician/Semitic origins and was latinized to Carthago or Carthage by the Romans.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please feel free to post any coin of Carthage or Phoenicia.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]452127[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]452128[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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