Phoenician coin exhibition at American University of Beirut

PHOENICIAN WATCH: Minting Power: Phoenician Coins and the Politics of Identity (Patricia Khoder, ​Office of Communications, American University of Beirut).

A war galley, a winged seahorse, two rocks floating in the sea, and a dog searching for a seashell — these are just a few of the tiny inscriptions and motifs found on ancient coins from Phoenicia, on display until fall 2025 at the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut (AUB).​

The exhibition, titled Coined for Power: Rulers, Myths and Propaganda, is curated by Dr. Nadine Haroun Panayot, curator of the AUB Archaeological Museum, and Dr. Jack Nurpetlian, lecturer and numismatist in the Department of History and Archaeology at AUB. The exhibition showcases around 20 coins from the university's remarkable and visually striking collection, which spans every major historical period. It takes visitors on a journey through time, tracing the rich history of the Mediterranean and Levantine shores.

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For more on that coin propaganda feud between the major Phoenician cities, see here.

Cross-file under Numismatics. Some more posts on Phoenician coinage are here, here, here, here, and here. For lots of posts on Carthaginian and Tunsian (Punic) coinage, follow the links from here, plus here.

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