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| Issuer | Punic Panormos (Ziz) |
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| Year | 336 BC - 330 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate male head facing left, rendered in a fine Sicilian-Punic style with carefully detailed curling hair adorned with a wreath of leaves. The portrait displays smooth facial features with a well-defined jaw and prominent brow, characteristic of the Hellenistic artistic conventions adopted by Punic mints in Sicily during the late fourth century BC. The field is plain, with no legend or additional devices. |
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| Reverse script | Punic |
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Panormos — known in Punic as Ziz, meaning "flower" — was among the most prosperous Phoenician colonies in Sicily, functioning as the principal Carthaginian administrative hub on the island during the fourth century BC. These small bronzes circulated during a period when Carthage was consolidating control over western Sicily following decades of conflict with Syracuse, and the coins reflect a deliberately local identity rather than a metropolitan Carthaginian one. The CNS series for Sicilian Punic issues remains the standard reference precisely because the die relationships across these bronzes are complex and still not fully resolved.