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bgr_352961 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Cinquième Statère en or

ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Cinquième Statère en or AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 2 500.00 €
Type : Cinquième Statère en or
Date: c. 350-320 AC.
Mint name / Town : Carthage, Zeugitane
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 7 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 1,84 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, légèrement décentré au revers. Très beau portrait de Tanit. Représentation équilibrée au revers. Belle patine de collection
Catalogue references :
A.7 pl. 1 - GC.6454  - Cop.-  - JL.124 pl. 6 - Llyod1661
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 45, n° 187 et de la collection d’Élisabeth

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche couronnée d’épis, grènetis circulaire.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval debout à droite, tournant la tête à droite.

Commentary

Semble de mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection Lewis (JL. 124, pl. 6). Ce type est en fait beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.

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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