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1/5 Stater
| Issuer | Carthage |
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| Year | 340 BC - 320 BC |
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| Currency | Shekel |
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| Obverse description | Wreathed head of Tanit facing left, her hair elaborately dressed with curls and bound with a wreath of grain or olive leaves, a pendant drop earring visible at the neck. The effigy is rendered in fine Hellenistic style, with naturalistic facial modelling and softly defined features. The design is enclosed within a border of beaded dots following the irregular flan edge. |
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| Mintage | ND (340 BC - 320 BC) |
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Carthage began striking gold coinage in Sicily during the late fifth century BC, initially to pay mercenary armies campaigning against the Greek cities of the island. These fractional issues — produced far from Carthage itself, almost certainly at a Sicilian mint — reflect the financial machinery of prolonged military engagement rather than any civic monetary ambition. The weight standard follows a Phoenician-derived system, not the Greek one dominant in Sicily, a deliberate distinction.
The MAA 7 classification places this piece among the earliest of the Carthaginian Sicilian gold series.