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Obverse description	Wreathed head of the goddess Tanit facing left, her hair elaborately dressed and adorned with a grain wreath or floral crown, rendered in the Hellenizing Punic style characteristic of Siculo-Punic bronze coinage of the late 4th century BC. The facial features are finely modeled in relief, with a visible ear and flowing locks descending behind the neck. The field is otherwise plain, with no legend or inscription present. The flan is irregular, as typical of hammered Punic bronzes of this period.
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Additional information	The attribution "Siculo-Punic" covers a cluster of mints operating in Carthaginian-controlled western Sicily during the fourth century BC, a zone where Carthage maintained commercial and military footholds even as Syracuse dominated the east. Pinning these bronzes to a specific city — Panormus, Motya's successor Lilybaeum, or one of the smaller Phoenician settlements — remains genuinely unresolved. Die studies have narrowed the field but not closed it. The date range corresponds roughly to the aftermath of Dionysius I's campaigns against Carthaginian Sicily, a period of unstable borders and contested coinage authority.