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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 3989295, member: 51347&quot;]A fun read:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1050347[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was actually minted during Hannibal&#039;s father, Hamilcar Barca, struggle with the Mercenary Troops.&nbsp; They revolted against Carthage because they could not be paid due to the heavy indemnities Rome imposed on Carthage after the FIRST Punic War.&nbsp; The Barca family developed a deep hatred towards Rome, perhaps manifasting Hannibal and his Brothers and other family to prosecute a war with Rome <i>again</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Carthage was embroiled is a nasty 2 year war (240-238 BCE) with their own Mercenaries from the First Punic War, with horrible cruelty by both sides.&nbsp; This was called The Mercenary or The Libyan War.&nbsp; The First Punic War and this horrible Merenary War probably shaped Hannibal&#039;s, his brothers&#039;, and his family&#039;s hatred toward Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a coin from that struggle, and is from the Libyan/Mercenary side of the struggle against Carthage:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1050350[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage LIBYAN UPRISING Mercenary War 241-238 BCE 7.36g AR DiShekel Herakles Head in Lion&#039;s Head- Lion walking R SNG Cop 240f</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Further, I thank [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] for her wonderful searching and discovering the understruck coin, (hence, Herakles UGLY nose!)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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