[ancients] The Building of Carthage

More excellent coins. I'd welcome those coins in my collection for sure.

 

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Zeugitana, Carthage. Circa 300-264 BC. AE 20mm. 5.5g

OBV: NO LEGEND: Wreathed head of Tanit left.

REV: NO LEGEND: Horse's head right.

REF: SNGCop 169

I really need to reshoot this coin as it looks better. This is a scanner photo.

 

I may have posted this before but I love the image. Tanit/horse. Just reading "Carthage Must be Destroyed" by Richard Miles. The making of Carthage is a great tale. The "unmaking" is also riveting.

TIF-thanks for the thread. The Dido reverse coins truly rock and one is on my target list.

 

=> hey honestly, I don't make this stuff up!! (the Vandals took over Carthage while most of the inhabitants were at the big game!!)

TIF => here is my Vandals in Carthage coin ...

VANDALS IN CARTHAGE, Æ 21 NUMMI
Date: 523-533 AD
Size: 20.26 mm
Weight: 6.28 grams
Obverse: Soldier standing facing
Reverse: Head of horse left, XXI in exergue
Attribution: MEC 45

 

That's a funny way to put it, lol, but it's exactly what happened.

 

Terrific thread! Great posts and a great write-up!!!

You'd think I'd have one example considering my newest avatar...

 

Hello,
Phoenician are my favorite people, have lots of coins but also some terracotta, see enclosed my queen Dido !!
40 cm high. see picture of the head.
Anybody else collection also terracotta? of the Phoenicians.

 

That is fantastic!!

 

Another area I'm interested in...but my budget is already screaming ENOUGH!!!

 

Hi. I was told that the piece hereunder is a Phoenician " trinkle " ( colored glass) which is believed to have been invented by the Phoenicians. Hope it is true... Here are 3 scans from different sides of the same piece.

 

hello, the glass bead also a very difficult subject real or not same like seals, I one' s bought a few Sassanian seals, but only one was maybe ok, according to the real expert, the other I returned, later they sold for double I paid, hummm what can I say many people want something that looks very nice, but fakers are making nice stuff that people fall for.
This bead looks quite good, nice ancient corrossion maybe it is original.
Indeed the Phoenicians where the masters in making glass with inlaid colors, millifiori glass.

 

Spain, Gades Æ26. 2nd century BC. Head of Herakles left, wearing lion's skin headdress / Two tunny fish left; between, crescent with pellet, central pellet and Punic aleph.

Tyre, Phoenicia, 196 A.D.
8631. Bronze AE 27, BMC Phoenicia 365, F, Tyre mint, 11.67g, 27.2mm, 0°, 196 A.D.; obverse TYPOY MHTPOΠOΛEWC, laureate head of Melquart right, lion's skin knotted around neck; reverse KOINOY ΦOINIKHC, octastyle temple facade, Phoenician script downward on left, AKT in ex.
Phoenicia, Arados 2nd Century BC AE 15
Bearded head of Poseidon to right
Triple-pointed ram of galley to left left, mintmark and date in Phoenician numerals above and below

 

Nice => sweet tunny-fish, my friend!!

 

Phoenicia, Arados AE 15 2nd Century BC
Bearded Head of Poseidon
Triple-pointed ram of galley to left left, mintmark and date in Phoenician numerals above and below

 

What is a tunny fish? A tuna?

 

=> JBG, I went straight to the horse's arse ... "wiki"

Tunny
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fish[edit]

• an alternative name for the tuna fish
• Common tunny another name for the Atlantic bluefin tuna
• Little tunny, the common name for Euthynnus alletteratus, a species of tuna

 

Like, Charlie the Tunny? Tunny salad on rye....What's the best tunny? Chicken of the...I'll stop now.

 

@ JBG. The first coin of Spain has four Phoenician letters under the lower tunny fish on the reverse. They are very clear and positioned almost in exergue.
The Punic Alef? Well Alef was the first letter of the Phoenician Alphabet, as well as to other Semitic languages. Hope that could help a little bit.

 

The previous owner of this coin, identified in the provenance note below, was gracious enough to let me buy it from them. Okay, so there may have been some subtle harassment on my part, but when it comes to rare coins that are high on our wish list, we do what we must. It goes without saying that I am super pleased with it!


ELAGABALUS
AE
12.6g, 28mm
TYRE, Phoenicia, circa AD 218-222
Rouvier 2375; BMC 409; Price & Trell 748 (for rev. type)
O: [IMP CAES] M AV ANTONIN[VS AVG], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
R: [TVRIORVM], Dido overseeing the building of Carthage; she stands on the right, holding a rule and a transverse sceptre, facing left towards an arched city gate flanked by two towers, palm tree to her right; above the gate a mason works; below, a worker digs with a pick, legend [∆ƐI-∆Ω] to his left and right; murex shell in upper field.
Ex TIF Collection (woot!)

 

The provenance alone must be worth a fortune .

We're Dido Buddies now

I guess I'd better remove the coin from my website .