Just won this from Heritage Auctions...

AV 1/10 Stater 9mm./0.99g. Carthage Mint
Zeugitana circa 350/290BC
obv. Date pam
rev. Horse Head
Sorry, its slabbed as MS 4/5 5/5 " went pretty cheap

 

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That's a tiny little thing! Very nice!

 

Funny thing was, I had no intention to bid on it. I just got home from taking my Rottie, "Thor" on his daily 10 km. hour long hike, checked out the Heritage site. This coin came up, still at opening bid, so on "final warning" I put in my bid, and won it. Hannibal is my favorite hero from back then, so its nice to get another coin from Carthage.

 

Neat coin, especially the horse head.

 

Ya gotta stop. You're killing me with all these nice gold coins.

 

I cannot.....I am totally addicted to this fine hobby!

 

Very nice,

 

Sweet coin! Do you take them out of the slabs?

 

I would

 

Oh man, that is too nice!

 

Super nice!!!!

 

That is a beautiful coin and that slab is nothing a hammer cannot fix.

 

Thanks everyone!
I have about 10 percent of my AV coins in slabs, thankfully all of my ancient gold are in saflips....except this recent one today. I tend to leave them in the slabs/ easier to show them. However, I prefer raw graded material. I recently got a AV 10 Gulden 1840 Willem coin/ graded stempelglanz by Kunker. Same auction/ they had a similar coin slabbed MS-66/their grade AU=fast stempelglanz!

 

Very nice! I would leave slabbed

 

Great coin! I'd leave it in the holder just so I didn't lose it, lol.

I've got no real problem with slabbed ancients, as long as I'm not paying for plastic. Sounds like you didn't.

 

Hey @panzerman , we are AV Coin Bros! Nice Carthaginian!


Carthage - Zeugitana AV 1-10th Stater-Shekel 350-320 BCE 0.94g 7.5mm Palm- Horse Head

One of my few Ancient AV...

 

Alegandron: Amazing! Nice coin! Its about time they did a modern remake of the Victor Mature Hannibal movie, Russell Crowe would be a great Hannibal! Too bad that Hannibal did not win.

 

Alegandron: Amazing! Nice coin! Its about time they did a modern remake of the Victor Mature Hannibal movie, Russell Crowe would be a great Hannibal! Too bad that Hannibal did not win.

 

Hannibal was a brilliant Tactical General, but was not a brilliant Long-Term Strategist nor politician. His destruction of over 100,000-200,000 Roman Legionaries over 3 decisive battles attest to that. Unfortunately, he did not drive the War home to success. Rome had the RESOLVE to fight it out, regardless of overwhelming short-term losses and defeats. They implemented the "Long-Game" Strategy successfully.

 

Oh , yeah, agreed! Need a really GOOD movie on Hannibal! We are due for one...