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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2880885, member: 51347&quot;]Wow, nice coin [USER=76329]@GerardV[/USER] !&nbsp; So interesting about the reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For me, I collect and enjoy REPUBLICAN Roman history.&nbsp; Carthage by the time of your coin is purely a ROMAN City.&nbsp; In 146 BCE Rome defeated Carthage in the Third and Final Punic War... they completely obliterated the City, killed most of its population with the rest going into slavery, and rendered Carthage EXTINCT as an entity.&nbsp; It was maybe 50 to 100 years later that they began re-colonizing the Carthage City area...</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a link... but this paragraph sums it up from Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Aftermath</b></font></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tunisie_Carthage_Ruines_08.JPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tunisie_Carthage_Ruines_08.JPG" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Tunisie_Carthage_Ruines_08.JPG/220px-Tunisie_Carthage_Ruines_08.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>Ruins of Carthage</p><p>Many Carthaginians died from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation" rel="nofollow">starvation</a> during the later part of the siege, while many others died in the final six days of fighting. When the war ended, the remaining 50,000 Carthaginians, a small part of the original pre-war population, were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome" rel="nofollow">sold into slavery</a> by the victors.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Punic_War#cite_note-scull-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Punic_War#cite_note-scull-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a> Carthage was systematically burned for 17 days; the city&#039;s walls and buildings were utterly destroyed. The remaining Carthaginian territories were annexed by Rome and reconstituted to become the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Province" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Province" rel="nofollow">Roman province of Africa</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Punic_War" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Punic_War" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Punic_War</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Oooops... Forgot my <b>Diocletians:</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]690496[/ATTACH] </b></p><p>RI Diocletian 284-305 CE AE Folles VOT XX</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]690497[/ATTACH]</p><p>RI Diocletian Ӕ Quinarius 1.46g 16mm Rome AD 284-305 IOVI CONSERVAT AVGG, Jupiter stndng thunderbolt sceptre RARE RIC 193[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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