Punic Sicily, Rash Melqart AR Tetradrachm. ca 350-305/300 BC. Punic inscription rshmlqrt, charioteer driving fast quadriga left, above Nike flying right to crown driver / Head of Arethusa right, wreathed with grain leaves, ...
Pyrrhic and Punic Wars
Struck Didrachm Issues and Associated Bronze Coinage
280 - 212 bc
Pyrrhus ...
Punic inscr. דש מלקדח Victorious quad- riga.
AR Tetradr.
Female head; around, dolphins.
[Hill, Sicily, Pl. X. 1.] ...
Siculo-Punic tetradrachm - Ras Melqart (Cape Herakles)
CARTHAGINIANS in SICILY c. 330BC, 16.26 gm, 25mm
OBV: Female head l with triple earring, leaf wreath, four dolphins surrounding ...
The Siculo-Punic tetradrachm depicted below was struck circa 320 BC during a period in which Carthage was locked in a desperate struggle with the Greek colony of Syracuse for supremacy over the island.
The Second Punic War was fought between Carthage and Rome from 218 to 204 BC. It was the second of three major wars fought between the Phoenician colony of Carthage, and the Roman Republic, then still confined to the Italian Peninsula.
218 - 201 BC 2nd Punic War between Rome and Carthage
Because of the enormous demand for coins to pay troops the Roman rulers debase their coinage in purity and weight, causing inflation.
p 88-89 ...
During the Second Punic war a flexible system of coins in bronze, silver and (occasionally) gold was created. This system was dominated by the silver denarius, a denomination which remained in circulation for 450 years.
During the Second Punic War Petelia adhered firmly to the Roman alliance, in spite of the defection of the Bruttians, and was rewarded after the conclusion of the war by being allowed to retain special privileges, ...
37 Punic, 24 G, 194 R Republican, 284 R, 85 Byz
Roman AE medallions (8), Punic (37), Roman Republican (194)
44 (6/71) VHV. MQP. 210 among 1289 on 10 ppl + 1 E among 76 ppl. 20 G, 190 R ...
The crisis of the Second Punic War was responsible for a complete restructuring of the Roman monetary system.
Most interesting of these are the coins of Carthage, enemy of Rome during the Punic Wars. Our example shows the head of the goddess Tanit and a horse's head with no legend.
300-289 BC, Punic Issues
(No legend)
Young head of Herakles clad in lionskin's with paws knotted below
(Punic legend - mbhjm)
Horse head left, palm tree with two clusters of dates behind
23mm x 26mm, 17.06g ...
Carthage and Siculo-Punic Issues
GB146. Zeugitania, Carthage, late 3rd Century BC, AE19. Tanit head left/Horse head rt., small palm below chin, SG 6526ff.
Rome's military successes in the later stages of the Second Punic War, especially the capture and sack of Syracuse, enabled her to undertake a fundamental reform of the coinage in 211 BC.
After the destruction of Carthage by Rome in the Third Punic Wars, it became a part of the Roman African Province. Because of its fertile farm lands, it was known as on of the bread baskets of the Roman Empire.
Jenkins, Coins of Punic Sicily, SNR.56, 1977, p. 57, pl. 18 a répertorié quinze exemplaires.
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