bgr_247858 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Shekel

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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 95.00 €

Type : Shekel

Date: c. 215-201 AC.

Mint name / Town : Zeugitane, Carthage

Metal : billon

Diameter : 22,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 6,70 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Tanit, bien venu à la frappe. Frappe molle au revers. Patine noire granuleuse

Catalogue references :

Cop.307 - A.88 c - GC.6512

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche, couronnée d'épis.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite tournant la tête à gauche.

Commentary

Émission contemporaine de la deuxième guerre Punique.

Historical background

ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE

(202-146 BC)

Hannibal was defeated at Zama in 202 BC by Scipio Africanus and peace was signed the following year. Hannibal reformed the Carthaginian institutions, but was forced to flee first to Antiochus III, then to Prusias of Bithynia and committed suicide in 183 BC. Carthage had to face the rise of the Numidian kingdom and its king Massinissa. The Third Punic War begins in 149 BC (Cato the Elder ended all his speeches in the Senate with: "Carthage must be destroyed"). Three years later, the city is taken and razed, its population massacred or reduced to slavery.

ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Triple shekel VG

100.00 €

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