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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] [IMG]http://www.polatkaya.net/GADIZ%207.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: the graffiti was incorporated into the Greek mold before it was press to the metal (coin) [/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: what would the purpose of having Phoenician writing on this coin be? Why Phoenician writing? [/QUOTE]: [QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: perhaps to show case Phoenician dominance over Greek people or Greeks to have a translation for Greek dominance over Phoenician people (historians can only guess) [/QUOTE]the coin has Phoenician writing on so that people who read Phoenician can read it. There are many sources that say the Phoenicians had a mint in Tyre, Lebanon It would be more reasonable that you acknowledge that the Phoenicians and Carthaginians had coins, coins with Phoenician writing on them and used these coins to exchange for goods but then argue that the Gods depicted on these Phoenician/Carthaginian coins were Greek That is more worthy of consideration than to say they didn't have coins [/qb][/QUOTE]in conclusion the Phoenicians did not mint coins prior to Persian colonization (there are no sources that prove they minted coins prior) coins with Phoenician writing on them are not found in Carthage or Africa (they are only found in Sicilian and Spanish territories where the population struck coins because of Greek influence) the coins depict Greek personalities not Phoenicians or Carthaginians (this is a fact) the coins of Persephone in Africa were brought there by Agathocles (this is well documented through Diodorus siculus) the only reference of Carthaginian money is leather money (this is also a fact) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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