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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 42 000.00 €
Type : Trihémistatère d’or ou tridrachme
Date: c. 270-264 AC.
Mint name / Town : Carthage, Zeugitane
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,49 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait extraordinaire où tous les détails de la coiffure sont visibles. Revers fantastique. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient certainement du trésor de Tunis, 1948, (IGCH 2271), de MONNAIES 41, n° 339 et de la collection d’Élisabeth
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche, couronnée d’épis, parée d’un collier et d’un pendentif d’oreilles.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval debout à droite, tournant la tête à gauche.
Commentary
Notre exemplaire est très proche de l’état du coin du n° 389, mais ne présente pas de globule sur le front qui caractérise les exemplaires 384/2 à 390. L’exemplaire 391/1 ne présente pas de globule, mais est différent de notre exemplaire. Pour le revers, notre exemplaire est très proche du N° 389 sans que nous puissions établir une liaison de coin définitive.
Our example is very close to the die condition of No. 389, but does not have a globule on the front that characterizes examples 384/2 to 390. example 391/1 does not have a globule, but is different from our example. For the reverse, our example is very close to No. 389 without us being able to establish a definitive die connection.
Our example is very close to the die condition of No. 389, but does not have a globule on the front that characterizes examples 384/2 to 390. example 391/1 does not have a globule, but is different from our example. For the reverse, our example is very close to No. 389 without us being able to establish a definitive die connection.
Historical background
ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE
(400-300 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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