Stater

正面描述	Facing three-quarter left, the wreathed head of the goddess Tanit is rendered in fine Sicilian-influenced style, her hair bound with a wreath of grain ears symbolic of fertility and abundance. She wears a beaded necklace and a distinctive triple-drop pendant earring, details that appear with characteristic consistency across the Carthaginian gold stater series. The portraiture reflects the high artistic quality associated with the western Mediterranean coinage tradition of the late fourth century BC.
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附加信息	These staters were struck to fund Carthage's military campaigns in Sicily, where the city maintained a contested presence against Syracuse for generations. The timing aligns with the intensifying conflicts of the mid-fourth century, when Carthaginian forces under successive suffetes required reliable, high-value coinage to pay mercenary troops — Libyan, Iberian, and Campanian soldiers who demanded gold, not credit. Jenkins and Lewis's classification of this type placed it within a tightly argued chronological sequence based on die links and stylistic progression, a framework that remains the standard reference for Punic gold despite being published in 1963.

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