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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 02:03, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Carthaginian currency

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An electrum Carthaginian shekel

• ... that Carthaginian currency (pictured) commonly featured the goddess Tanit and a horse?

• ALT1:... that the Carthaginian shekel may have predated the coins of Phoenicia itself?
• ALT2:... that Punic currency was frequently coined especially to pay Carthage's mercenaries?
• ALT3:... that the history of Carthage is reflected in the purity of its currency?
• ALT4:... that Carthaginian currency may have been the origin of the English "penny", German "pfennig", and Swedish "penning"?
• ALT5:... that Punic currency attests to Carthage's growing prosperity prior to the Third Punic War urged by Cato the Elder?
• Reviewed: will do Kang Shi'en

Created by LlywelynII (talk). Self-nominated at 12:30, 9 February 2016 (UTC).

• Nice article! It's long enough, new enough, and well referenced. I like the main hook and ALT2. However, some of the words in the hooks are not supported by the article, such as "commonly" (article says two denominations) and "frequently" (article says "a great deal of coins" were struck to pay mercenaries, but only once). -Zanhe (talk) 20:32, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

• At the moment, I can't use my VPN to go back and reread the sources at Google Books, but I guess we can just go with the original hook. I'm certain Vennemann mentions Tanit being ubiquitous as part of his argument for a derivation of the word penny but I'm not sure if Crawford ever explicitly uses the word "frequently" despite that being the gist of his narrative in the chapter on North African currency. If you much prefer ALT2, you can click through and check, but OH should be good to go now. QPQ added. — LlywelynII 03:25, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks for adding the ref. Original hook is now verified with RS. QPQ is done. No copyvio found. Good to go. -Zanhe (talk) 03:45, 11 February 2016 (UTC)