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United States
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Anyone collect coins from Carthage? If so mind sharing? I'm thinking about picking up a Punic. Some of them are quite beautiful (and expensive). The Punics don't seem as popular which I find perplexing.  |
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United States
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I have a large bronze that I've been meaning to upload for almost 2 years, but I never could properly identify it.
I suspect that they aren't as popular due to the price - the bronzes can be reasonable but silver and gold can be silly expensive.
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 United States
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Sorry, but I have nothing to post here, but am interested to see what other folks do have.  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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United States
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I have a couple, here is one sorry for the bad pictures. I'll have to dig out the coin and take better ones.   AE 22 Head of Tanit, Horse standing right with Palm tree behind. SB-6510 |
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Thanks Echizento. My understanding is that the Horse and Palm tree are the symbols of Carthage, and that Tanit is a common obverse. Evidently they learned how to mint coins from the Greek cities they conquered.
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Sorry should have added more to the description. This coin dates late 3rd century BC after the defeat in the 2nd Punic War. Yes the horse and palm are a symbol of Carthage. Minted at Zeugitana.
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Belgium
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Zeugitania , Carthago : 325 - 275 ,. obv : palm tree rev : horse's head right AE 19 , 7.8 gr , 9 h ref : SNGCop102. albert   |
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Netherlands
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Spain, Carthago Nova. 220-205 B.C. Æ Calco. Obv: Laureated Tanit facing left Rev: Horse's head left.   |
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My first Punic arrived in the mail today.  2.66g 15.68mm Ancient Hispania - Carthaginian occupation. (218-210 B.C.), bronze half calco. Tanit head / horse and palm. "A large crowd had gradually collected to listen to the speaker, and the popular Assembly had become mingled with the senate, when without a moment's warning the leading citizens withdrew before any reply was given. They collected all the gold and silver from public and private sources and brought it into the forum, where a fire had already been kindled, and flung it into the flames, and most of them thereupon leaped into the fire themselves. The terror and confusion which this occasioned throughout the city was heightened by the noise of a tumult in the direction of the citadel. A tower after much battering had fallen, and through the breach created by its fall a Carthaginian cohort advanced to the attack and signalled to their commander that the customary outposts and guards had disappeared and the city was unprotected. Hannibal thought that he ought to seize the opportunity and act promptly. Attacking it with his full strength, he took the place in a moment. Orders had been given that all the adult males were to be put to death; a cruel order, but under the circumstances inevitable, for whom would it have been possible to spare when they either shut themselves up with their wives and children and burnt their houses over their heads, or if they fought, would not cease fighting till they were killed? - Livy, describing the fall of Saguntum, Book 21 History of Rome |
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Doucet
Those are beautiful coins. Very well photographed too.
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