Live auction - bgr_566709 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Double shekel
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| Estimate : | 520 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 10 March 2020 14:28:47 |
Type : Double shekel
Date: c. 160-146 AC.
Mint name / Town : Carthage, Zeugitane
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,46 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire idéalement centré des deux côtés. Usure régulière. Joli portrait de Tanit. Patine grise
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection Luc Corso
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche, couronnée d’épis avec collier et pendants d’oreilles.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LETTRE PUNIQUE (‘AYIN) SOUS LE POITRAIL DU CHEVAL.
Reverse description : Cheval au pas à droite.
Commentary
Flan crénelé (serratus). Maro Viola (CNP.) a recensé au total quinze variétés différentes pour ce type.
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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