Zeugitana, Carthage Tetradrachm Period: 264-241 B.C.

Description

Ancient Greek Coin – Zeugitana, Carthage, North Africa

Tetradrachm Period: 264-241 B.C. (time of the First Punic War)

An Exact Replica of the Original Coin

Carthage was a great maritime trading city that Phoenician colonists from Tyre founded in the eighth century B.C. From the 6th to the 3rd century B.C. the Carthaginians dominated trade in the western Mediterranean.

Obverse: Head left of Tanit

Reverse: Horse standing large star above

Diameter: 24 mm

Stamped with the word copy.

Silver plated, made in the USA.

It is packaged in a coin-collecting flip with the description of the coin printed on the flip insert.