bgr_326053 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Double shekel
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 450.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 450.00 €
Type : Double shekel
Date: c. 160-146 AC.
Mint name / Town : Carthage, Zeugitane
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,13 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large serratus, bien centré des deux côtés. Très belle tête de Tanit. Joli revers à l’usure plus prononcée. Patine avec des reflets dorés
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 ; un globule entre les antérieurs.
Commentary
Flan crénelé (serratus). Cet exemplaire est comparable en état de conservation à ceux connus et semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. Variante rare avec un signe entre les antérieurs du cheval au revers.
Crenellated (serratus) flan. This specimen is comparable in state of preservation to those known and seems much rarer than general works suggest. Rare variant with a sign between the horse's forelegs on the reverse
Crenellated (serratus) flan. This specimen is comparable in state of preservation to those known and seems much rarer than general works suggest. Rare variant with a sign between the horse's forelegs on the reverse
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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