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Gades: Anonymous (ca. 2nd century BCE) Æ Semis (Burgos 1332)

Started by Quant.Geek, June 23, 2024, 11:18:25 PM

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Feeling a bit lazy today, even though, I have two major demos tomorrow. Here is another addition to my Herakles collection, depicting Melkart-Herakles. Bought this months ago, but never got around to attributing it properly. But, I am not too sure of the attribution. Need to double-check Burgos, but alas my 1987 edition does not have this particular coin...

Gades: Anonymous (ca. 2nd century BCE) Æ Semis (Burgos 1332)

Obv: Head of Melkart-Herakles left, wearing lion's skin headdress
Rev: Phoenician legend 𐤌𐤐𐤏𐤋 (MP'L) above and 𐤀𐤂𐤃𐤓 ('GDR) below; Phoenician 𐤀‎ (Aleph) between two tunny-fish left

Burgos-1332.jpg
A gallery of my coins can been seen at FORVM Ancient Coins

JMP

Very nice specimen, Quant.Geek!
And very difficult to find on the www unlike the type with Melkart facing left.
I could just find these two on CoinArchives: