Ancient Shekel Bronze Coin, Punic Empire, North Africa. Carthage Zeugitana 300BCE Tanit And Horse, Numismatics And Collectibles

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Dimensions, Diameter 17 mm, All measurements are approximate. Sold As Pictured. Provenance, Private Collector, Denmark, Acquired By tc&tc Private Collector in NYC 2026.

Punic Empire, North Africa. Carthage, Zeugitana. Standard Circulation Coin, Circa 300 BCE To 264 BCE. Value Of A Shekel. Composition, Bronze. Shape Round But Irregular. Hammered. Obverse With Head Of Goddess Of Rain Tanit Facing Left, Consort Of Baal Ammon And Chief Deity Patron Of Carthage. Reverse, Head A Horse Facing Right. References, MAA 57, CNP 252, SNG Copenhagen 149-150. // 

NOTES: The Identity Of The Female Head Appearing On The Obverse Of The Gold And Silver Issues Is Uncertain. The Head Is A Close Imitation Of Obverse Dies From The Mint Of Syracuse Depicting The Goddesses Kore And Arethusa. Some Scholars Have Argued That This Was Simply An Imitation Of A Trusted Design And No Specific Identity Was Intended For The Figure. Other Scholars Have Argued That It Should Be Interpreted As A Depiction Of The Goddess Kore. In Support Of This Is The Fact That Demeter And Kore Were Worshipped In Carthage, Where They Had Had A Temple Since 396 BCE. 

Donald Harden Argued That The Head Should Be Interpreted As The Carthaginian Goddess Tanit, "In The Guise Of The Sicilian Persephone (i.e. Kore)". Kenneth Jenkins Suggests That This Could Be Linked With The Interpretation Of The Horse On The Reverse As A Symbol Of Baal Hammon, Since One Of Tanit's Main Epithets In Carthage Was Pene Ba'al (Face Of Ba'al), But He Concedes That Evidence That The Carthaginians Identified Tanit With Kore Is "Lacking". // 

Ancient Numismatics And Collectibles, Ancient Mediterranean History, Iron Age Coinages, Greece, Italy, Antique Bronze Coins, Classic European Antiquities, Small Coins. // 

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