bgr_247858 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Shekel
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 95.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 95.00 €
Type : Shekel
Date: c. 215-201 AC.
Mint name / Town : Zeugitane, Carthage
Metal : billon
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,70 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Tanit, bien venu à la frappe. Frappe molle au revers. Patine noire granuleuse
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche, couronnée d'épis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite tournant la tête à gauche.
Commentary
Émission contemporaine de la deuxième guerre Punique.
Contemporary issue of the Second Punic War
Contemporary issue of the Second Punic War
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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