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bgr_758474 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Double shekel

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Price : 800.00 €

Type : Double shekel

Date: c. 160-146 AC.

Mint name / Town : Carthage, Zeugitane

Metal : billon

Diameter : 26 mm

Orientation dies : 1 h.

Weight : 13,20 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie idéalement centrée. Joli portrait de Tanit, bien venu à la frappe. Revers agréable. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

GC.6500 (325£) - Cop.- - A.100 b - JL.- pl. 28/14 - Müller116 - CNP.62 b

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).
Crenellated flank (serratus)

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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ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Triple shekel VF

75.00 €

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