bgr_365526 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Trihemishekel

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Price : 150.00 €

Type : Trihemishekel

Date: c. 203-201 AC.

Mint name / Town : Carthage, Zeugitane

Metal : billon

Diameter : 25 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 8,72 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier. Belle tête de Tanit. Revers de frappe molle. Patine vert noir

Catalogue references :

Cop.391 - A.81 - GC.6517 - CNP.103 - Müller230

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la collection R. Chevallier (1922-2015)

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche, couronnée d'épis ; Grènetis circulaire.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite, levant l'antérieur droit ; grènetis circulaire.

Commentary

Billon corné. Monnaie contemporaine du retour d’Hannibal en Afrique avant la bataille de Zama (202 avant J.-C.). L’exemplaire de MONNAIES 47 en état SPL s’est vendu à 880€ sur un maximum à 900€ avec quatre offres.

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.

ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Triple shekel VG

100.00 €

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