v43_0299 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Quart de shekel d’argent ou hemidrachme
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 320.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 320.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 401.00 €
Starting price : 320.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 320.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 401.00 €
Type : Quart de shekel d’argent ou hemidrachme
Date: c. 220-205 AC.
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,95 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Tanit, bien venu à la frappe. Très joli revers de style fin, de haut relief. Magnifique patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
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.
Commentary
La fabrication de ce type semble bien carthaginoise bien qu’il se rencontre dans les trésors d’Italie du Sud. Le style est purement “grec”, fin et équilibré en particulier pour le cheval au revers. Nous n’avons pas relevé de liaison de coin pertinente.
The manufacture of this type seems to be Carthaginian, although it is found in treasures from southern Italy. The style is purely “Greek,” fine and balanced, particularly for the horse on the reverse. We have not noted any relevant die bond.
The manufacture of this type seems to be Carthaginian, although it is found in treasures from southern Italy. The style is purely “Greek,” fine and balanced, particularly for the horse on the reverse. We have not noted any relevant die bond.
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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