bgr_505511 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Trihemishekel
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Trihemishekel
Date: c. 203-201 AC.
Mint name / Town : Carthage, Zeugitane
Metal : billon
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,87 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale avec les grènetis visibles. Belle tête de Tanit. Joli revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine gris métallique avec des petites oxydations verdâtres
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche, couronnée d'épis ; Grènetis circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite, levant l'antérieur droit ; globule entre les jambes postérieures ;grènetis circulaire.
Commentary
Coin légèrement bouché. Avec son argenture superficielle. Monnaie contemporaine du retour d’Hannibal en Afrique avant la bataille de Zama (202 avant J.-C.). L’exemplaire de MONNAIES 47 en état SPL s’est vendu à 880€ sur un maximum à 900€ avec quatre offres.
Slightly blocked coin. With its superficial silvering. Coin contemporary with Hannibal's return to Africa before the Battle of Zama (202 BC). The copy of COINS 47 in MS condition sold for €880 out of a maximum of €900 with four bids
Slightly blocked coin. With its superficial silvering. Coin contemporary with Hannibal's return to Africa before the Battle of Zama (202 BC). The copy of COINS 47 in MS condition sold for €880 out of a maximum of €900 with four bids
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.
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