v49_0330 - ZEUGITANA - CARTHAGE Unité, (PB, Æ 17)
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 110.00 €
Estimate : 170.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 110.00 €
Estimate : 170.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Unité, (PB, Æ 17)
Date: c. 400-350 AC.
Mint name / Town : Zeugitane, Carthage
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,78 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais et irrégulier. Beau portrait de Tanit. Revers un peu court. Patine noire, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock Joubert (1990)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Tanit à gauche, couronnée d’épis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite devant un palmier.
Commentary
Poids lourd.
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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