Phoenician Lunar Goddess Tanit -- 4th Century B.C.

Phoenician Lunar Goddess Tanit -- 4th Century B.C.

Tanit was a Phoenician lunar goddess, worshiped as the patron goddess at Carthage.

Bronze AE 14, SNG Cop 1021 ff., aVF, Sicilian mint, weight 5.690g, maximum diameter 16.3mm, die axis 180o, obverse head of Persephone-Tanit left; reverse horse prancing right.

A beautifully patinated high-psychometric coin of the very earliest of the Greek civilization, long before the Hellenic Age.

$360.00