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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2829855, member: 51347&quot;]<b><i><span style="color: #b30000">Fun times:</span></i></b>&nbsp; Couple of great Auctions lately yielded a couple of nice AE coins from Carthage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Carthage was the OTHER World Power up until around 201 BCE when they lost the 2nd Punic War to Rome.&nbsp; They limped along for another 50 years, and began to really rebuild themselves and their City.&nbsp; Unfortunately, too many politicos (lead by Cato the Elder), finally swayed Rome to extinguish Carthage from the planet.&nbsp; From 148-146 BCE Rome fought the 3rd Punic War.&nbsp; In the end, Carthage as a City and Entity was obliterated from the planet.&nbsp; The City was razed, people slaughtered, and the few left over were sold into slavery.&nbsp; Carthage was extinct.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later, perhaps another 50 years later, it was rebuilt by the Romans, but it was not a Punic Carthage, rather a Roman Carthage.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Empire of Carthage:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]666804[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Nice synopsis of the History of Carthage:</b></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Carthage</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Cato the Elder</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]666797[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>Yeah... <i>&quot;Dalenda est Carthago&quot; </i>was this guy&#039;s mantra... (besides, &quot;Get me some more prune juice!&quot;)</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000"><i>Imagine today if a World Power WIPED OUT another World Power and made them extinct...</i></span></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Here are a couple cool AE&#039;s that I captured, 1 each from a couple of different auctions.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Ahhh... COINS!</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>CARTHAGE:</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>2nd Punic War</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]666809[/ATTACH]</b></p><p>Carthage 220-215 BCE</p><p>AE 31mm approx 18g</p><p>2nd Punic War</p><p>Tanit</p><p>Horse Palm Punic S inside T</p><p>SNG COP 342</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Carthage just prior to 1st Punic War</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]666820[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage 300-264 BCE</p><p>AE 19 19mm 5.62g</p><p>Sardinia mint </p><p>Tanit wreathed</p><p>Horse hd r Punic letter ayin</p><p>SNG COP 151</p><p>JP Righetti collection</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000"><i>Please post any of your Carthage Coins are any of the Roman Republic during these times</i></span></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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