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v53_0152 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Statère d’or

ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Statère d’or AU
AU
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 1 500.00 €
Estimate : 2 500.00 €
Realised price : 2 276.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 2 276.00 €
Type : Statère d’or
Date: c. 350-320 AC.
Mint name / Town : Zeugitane, Carthage
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 700 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,48 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Tanit avec une usure superficielle dans la chevelure. Très joli revers équilibré
Catalogue references :
GC.6463  - JL.314 pl. 13 - A.9 pl. 1 - P.3308
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock Vinchon et de la collection Claude Lainé (monde de Carthage)

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche, couronnée d’épis, parée d’un collier et d’un triple pendentif d’oreilles.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval debout à droite ; trois globules derrière l’antérieur droit ; un point devant le poitrail.

Commentary

Notre exemplaire est très proche des pièces de la classe IVb. Nous n’avons pas relevé de liaison de coin pertinente pour ce statère.

Historical background

ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE

(400-300 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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