MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 278.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 358.00 €
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 278.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 358.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 350-320 AC.
Mint name / Town : Carthage, Zeugitane
Metal : billon
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,04 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier, légèrement décentré des deux côtés. Belle tête de Tanit au droit. Très joli revers de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acquis en 1981 et provient de la collection du docteur Thierry de Craeker
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche, couronnée d’épis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite devant un palmier.
Commentary
Nous avons ici un exemple en billon ou en métal argenté de très bonne facture qui complique encore notre vision du monnayage punique au tournant au IVe siècle avant J.-C.
Here we have a very well-made example in billon or silver-plated metal which further complicates our view of Punic coinage at the turn of the 4th century BC.
Here we have a very well-made example in billon or silver-plated metal which further complicates our view of Punic coinage at the turn of the 4th century BC.
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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