Siculo-Punic issues Info [Siculo-Punic Coins]
The symbols on the coins
- head horse and standing horse
- Carthage was built where the founders discovered a horse's head in the ground (indication by Tanit).
- Tanit
- Punic interpretation of the phoenician goddess Astarte (the Latin Juno).
- Demeter
- The mother goddess of the earth, fertility, corn and fields. Daughter of Kronos and Rhea.
- Persephone (Kore)
- Daughter of Demeter. Robbed by Hades, who made her his wife.
- Triptólemos
- favourite of Demeter. Sent out to learn agriculture to man.