Catalog
Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Motye, Punic |
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| Year | 405 BC - 397 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Punic |
| Obverse lettering | mtv |
| Reverse description | A large crab rendered in frontal view, occupying the full field of the flan, with prominent claws raised symmetrically to either side and eight legs splayed outward. The carapace is rendered with bold, rounded relief, and three wavy lines below the body suggest the sea. The design fills the flan nearly to the beaded border, demonstrating a strong Sicilian Greek typological tradition as found on contemporaneous coinage of Akragas and other western Sicilian mints. |
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