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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 3445257, member: 51347&quot;]I do NOT claim any type of historical authority, and it is all my conjecture since so little is really available from these histories.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, put yourself into that time:&nbsp; Carthage employed Mercenaries for a LOT of their war machine each time they fought.&nbsp; Carthage lost a major war with a upcoming rival (Rome), and had to pay massive punitive damages / indemnities for the war (hmmm... I wonder if &quot;Punic&quot;, Roman name for Carthage - originally from Tyre or Phoenician-Punic, is the derivative of &quot;Punitive&quot;...), sorry, I digressed...</p><p><br /></p><p>They still had to pay a MASSIVE amount to muster the Mercenary troops consisting of Celts, Iberians, Numidians, Libyans, etc...&nbsp; An idiot Carthage General kept stalling, lying, etc. in order to delay paying the troops when they surrendered on Sicily.&nbsp; He then had the BRILLIANT idea of transporting those 50,000 Mercenaries to the Carthage area.&nbsp; This war lasted 3 horriby bloody years AFTER they lost to the Romans.</p><p><br /></p><p>The war was supported and fought over North Africa, but a lot of support came from Mercenaries still in Sardinia and Sicily ( both taken from Carthage by Rome.)&nbsp; The mercenaries were building legitimacy and support for their cause, especially getting the Libyans on their side to fight Carthage.&nbsp; Having no means to be paid, I am sure they looted, stole, confiscated as many coins / precious metals to re-strike into coins depicting THEIR cause.&nbsp; We all know that coins were a huge means of communicating from the authorities to the masses.&nbsp; Some of my Mercenary War / Libyan War coins are from Sardinia, and from North Africa.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mercenary / Libyan War coins are a little tougher to get...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]914735[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage - LIBYAN REVOLT 241-238 BCE Sardinia mint Tanit 3 Grain ears SNG Cop 252</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]914736[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage - LIBYAN REVOLT Rebels 241-238 BCE 9.63g 24mm Shekel Sardinia mint Tanit 3 Grain ears Crescent SNG Cop 247</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]914737[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage Zeugitania Libyan Revolt AR Shekel 24mm 7.34g 241-238 BCE Wreathed Tanit Horse stndg control mark and Punic M SNG Cop 236</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]914738[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage Zeugitania after 241 DIshekel AE 27 10.8g Libyan Revolt Tanit - Horse r palm MAA 45 SNG Cop 253 scarce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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