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v59_0156 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Unité

ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Unité AU/AU
AU/AU
MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
Realised price : 287.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 287.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 400-350 AC.
Mint name / Town : Carthage ou atelier syracusain
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 4,81 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Très jolie tête légèrement stylisée. Très joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Magnifique patine vert noir
Catalogue references :
A.15 a - Cop.94  - Müller-  - CNP.126
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de la Banque Populaire du Nord (Yves Cellard) en 1983 et 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 bondissant à droite.

Commentary

Poids léger. Le style de notre exemplaire fait plutôt penser à une fabrication sicilienne car le flan est globulaire sans être totalement biseauté comme le signale Jacques Alexandropoulos dans son ouvrage (p. 366).

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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