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Diobol
| Issuer | Carthage |
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| Year | 300 BC - 264 BC |
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| Currency | Shekel |
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| Reverse description | Horse's head depicted in left profile, rendered in bold relief with a flowing, striated mane falling along the neck. The mouth is slightly open, conveying vitality and movement. A small circle or pellet appears in the lower right field below the throat, serving as a control mark or mint symbol. The design is enclosed within a plain dotted border, with the unincused field left plain and no legend present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Carthage struck bronze fractional coinage heavily during this period to pay Sicilian mercenaries — a logistical necessity driven by near-continuous warfare against Syracuse and the western Greek colonies. The city had no tradition of civic bronze coinage before the late fourth century, adopting the medium largely under Greek influence from its Sicilian campaigns.
SNG Copenhagen 151 places this piece within a well-documented series, though die alignment and module inconsistencies across the type suggest decentralized or field-mint production rather than a single controlled Carthaginian workshop.