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⅙ Stater
| Issuer | Carthage |
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| Year | 270 BC - 264 BC |
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| Value | ⅙ Gold Stater (2) |
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| Reverse description | A free-standing horse facing right in the field, depicted in a naturalistic Hellenistic style with its head turned slightly toward the viewer and one foreleg raised. A palm tree rises prominently in the background to the left of the horse, its fronds spreading across the upper field, symbolizing the fertility and power of Carthage. A ground line indicated by a branch or exergual element runs beneath the horse's hooves. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck in the final years before the First Punic War, this fractional issue belongs to a Carthaginian military coinage series produced primarily to pay mercenary troops — Libyan, Iberian, and Gallic soldiers who neither trusted nor had use for anything but precious metal by weight. The Sicilian campaigns demanded constant liquidity in small denominations, and gold fractions like this answered that need directly.
The outbreak of war with Rome in 264 BC effectively ended this series.