Carthage AE Unit 300–264 BC Tanit left / horse head right, palm tree

Carthage, Unit, bronze, 300–264 BC, 7.50 g, 22 mm. Anepigraphic bronze struck at Carthage. Obverse: wreathed head of Tanit left; three pellets behind; beaded border. Reverse: horse’s head right; palm tree before; beaded border. Struck on a round flan in the standard Punic civic fabric of the period, with pellets serving as control marks. MAA 57p; SNG Copenhagen 176.

This series represents the principal bronze of Carthage in the late 4th–early 3rd centuries BC. The head of Tanit reflects the city’s Phoenician religious tradition, while the horse and palm function as Carthaginian civic emblems linked to North African cavalry and the city badge. These coins circulated across Punic North Africa and in Carthaginian possessions in western Sicily and Sardinia in the decades leading up to the First Punic War.