MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 350.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 600.00 €
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 350.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 600.00 €
Type : Demi-shekel
Date: c. 210-202 AC.
Mint name / Town : Carthage, Zeugitane
Metal : billon
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,64 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Jolie tête de Tanit à l’usure régulière. Belle représentation du revers. Patine gris foncé avec des reflets dorés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la Banque Populaire du Nord (Yves Cellard) en 1974 et de la collection du docteur Thierry de Craeker
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche, couronnée d’épis avec collier et pendants d’oreilles.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval au pas à droite surmonté d’un d’une étoile à huit rais centrée d’un globule.
Commentary
Poids très léger pour cette émission, mais lourd pour le type. Ce demi-shekel est bien en billon et semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Very light weight for this issue, but heavy for the type. This half shekel is indeed in billon and seems much rarer than general works suggest.
Very light weight for this issue, but heavy for the type. This half shekel is indeed in billon and seems much rarer than general works suggest.
Historical background
ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE
(3rd century BC)
Carthage was founded in 814 BC, according to tradition by settlers from Tyre. Virgil immortalized the deadly conflict that was to oppose Carthage and Rome in the Aeneid, featuring Aeneas, who wanted to go to Italy, and the queen of Carthage, Dido, who wanted to keep him with him. Before committing suicide after her departure, she would have launched the curse which was to weigh on Rome and Carthage until the destruction of the second by the first in 146 BC. Between the 5th and 4th centuries BC- C., the most formidable enemies of the Carthaginians in the Western Mediterranean were the Greeks of southern Italy and Sicily. Gelon had already crushed the Carthaginians at Himera in 480 BC and Agathokles, who was to take the title of king in 304 BC, invaded Africa in 310 BC. Finally defeated in 307, he had to retire to Sicily and sign peace with the Carthaginians.
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