bgr_982438 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Trihemishekel
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Type : Trihemishekel
Date: c. 203-201 AC.
Mint name / Town : Carthage, Zeugitane
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,84 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure régulière. Joli portrait. Revers agréable. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
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
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.
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