Category:Coins of Cossura

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Cossura (modern Pantelleria) was inhabited by Phoenicians. After the Roman occupation in 217 BC, bronze coins of two types (an early one, and a late one dates to the second half of the 1st century BC) were minted in the island. Both types bear Female head with Egyptian headdress, but in the early type the woman was crowned by Nike. On the other side, the early type bears the Punic legend 𐤀𐤉𐤓𐤍𐤌 (ʾyrnm) in a wreath of laurel, and the late type bears he legend COSSVRA under the sign of Tanit, all in a wreath of laurel. See B. Head et al. (1911), "Islands Between Africa and Sicily", Historia Numorum (2nd ed.), Clarendon Press, p. 882–883.

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