 According to Pliny the Elder, the Libyans honored the war goddess Ifri or "Africa", who was considered to be the protector of her worshipers (and seemed to have been an influential goddess in North Africa) and depicted her on the Berber coins.This goddess was represented in diverse ways on Numidian coins from the first century BC.When the Romans conquered Northwest Africa, she appeared in sculpture and on the coins of the Roman states in North Africa.