v34_0317 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Shekel ou didrachme en électrum
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 380.00 €
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 380.00 €
Type : Shekel ou didrachme en électrum
Date: c. 160-146 AC.
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,39 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Beau portrait. Joli cheval. Patine grise, légèrement tachée et piquée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche, couronnée d’épis avec collier et pendants d’oreilles.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval au pas à droite.
Commentary
Cet exemplaire est comparable en état de conservation à ceux connus et semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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