bgr_442639 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE quinze shekels

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Price : 350.00 €

Type : quinze shekels

Date: c. 201-195 AC.

Mint name / Town : Carthage, Zeugitane

Metal : copper

Diameter : 46 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 91,95 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan large à bords biseautés très épais. Usure très importante, mais identifiable. Coup sur la tranche à 7 heures. Patine verte granuleuse

Catalogue references :

Cop. - A.103 m - GC.6532 (100£)

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche, couronnée d'épis.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite, levant l’antérieur gauche ; au-dessus l’uraeus.

Commentary

Pour ce type, Jacques Alexandropoulos a recensé une unique variété.

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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