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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Shekel
Date: c. 300-264 AC.
Mint name / Town : Carthage, Zeugitane
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,78 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré avec les gènetis visibles. Belle tête de Tanit. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche, couronnée d’épis avec collier et boucles d’oreille ; devant le front, un globule.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Tête et cou de cheval à droite ; devant un petit annelet.
Commentary
Poids léger. Pour cette émission, Mauro Viola a recensé 26 combinaisons différentes. L’atelier pourrait se situer en Sardaigne.
Lightweight. For this show, Mauro Viola has listed 26 different combinations. The workshop could be located in Sardinia.
Lightweight. For this show, Mauro Viola has listed 26 different combinations. The workshop could be located in Sardinia.
Historical background
ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE
(3rd century 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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