Posted 12/16/2013 7:00 pm
Assuming that they're all supposed to be Carthaginian, my best guess for the bottom one is one of the "three wheat stalks" types, like this one on Wildwinds.
The middle one has a bull on it. The bull is a far rarer design motif on Carthaginian coins, compared to the horse, but it can be found, for example on this type.
Now, it's unlikely that all three coins are going to be found mixed up together in the same archaeological context, since they are from different mints and time periods. The bull and three-wheats types come from Sardinia, roughly 240-210 BC. The horse-and-tree type in the other thread is a more generic design. I don't know where they got "203 AD" as the date for the other coin from, but it's wrong; Carthage was part of the Roman Empire in AD 203 and the issue of old Carthaginian-style coins had long since ceased. It dates from sometime around 300-200 BC, though exactly where in that time period I can't tell.
The middle one has a bull on it. The bull is a far rarer design motif on Carthaginian coins, compared to the horse, but it can be found, for example on this type.
Now, it's unlikely that all three coins are going to be found mixed up together in the same archaeological context, since they are from different mints and time periods. The bull and three-wheats types come from Sardinia, roughly 240-210 BC. The horse-and-tree type in the other thread is a more generic design. I don't know where they got "203 AD" as the date for the other coin from, but it's wrong; Carthage was part of the Roman Empire in AD 203 and the issue of old Carthaginian-style coins had long since ceased. It dates from sometime around 300-200 BC, though exactly where in that time period I can't tell.
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