Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
⅖ Stater
| Issuer | Carthage |
|---|---|
| Year | 149 BC - 146 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Shekel |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Facing left, the idealized bust of the goddess Tanit is rendered in fine Punic style, her hair dressed and adorned with a wreath of grain ears symbolic of fertility and agricultural abundance. She wears a single-pendant drop earring and a beaded necklace, lending the effigy an elegant, divine character. The portrait is contained within a beaded border, typical of late Carthaginian gold coinage. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A horse stands in profile to the right, rendered with naturalistic musculature characteristic of Carthaginian equine iconography, its far foreleg raised in a prancing posture. A single pellet appears in the upper field above the horse's back. The design is set within a beaded border, and the flan exhibits the irregular contours typical of hammered gold coinage of the late Punic period. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information | Log in to see details |