North Africa, Carthage (c.250 B.C.), Electrum Trihemistater, 11.09g., head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of barley, earring and necklace, rev. horse standing right, above which is a radiate sun-disk flanked by uraeus-cobras, each with disk above head (Jenkins and Lewis, Group Xa, 406A), evidence of mounting on edge, and a few light scratches in field as a result, narrow flan-crack, almost extremely fine, rare
North Africa, Carthage (c.250 B.C.), Electrum Trihemistater, 11.09g., head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of barley, earring and necklace, rev. horse standing right, above which is a radiate sun-disk flanked by uraeus-cobras, each with disk above head (Jenkins and Lewis, Group Xa, 406A), evidence of mounting on edge, and a few light scratches in field as a result, narrow flan-crack, almost extremely fine, rare

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North Africa, Carthage (c.250 B.C.), Electrum Trihemistater, 11.09g., head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of barley, earring and necklace, rev. horse standing right, above which is a radiate sun-disk flanked by uraeus-cobras, each with disk above head (Jenkins and Lewis, Group Xa, 406A), evidence of mounting on edge, and a few light scratches in field as a result, narrow flan-crack, almost extremely fine, rare

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