Punic coinage

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Shekel

Punic coins were a means of payment in Carthage and its provinces.

The coinage began around 410 BC. On the conquered island of Sicily. They used silver and took over the monetary standard of the Athenians with a standard weight of about 4.3 grams for the Tetradrachme . In Carthage itself the Phoenician coin system is used , the shekel had a standard weight of around 7.5 grams. It was made of gold and was used from around 390/380 BC. Minted. From around 320 BC. In North Africa, electron coins were also minted , from 250 BC onwards. Chr. Made of silver. With the defeat against Rome in 241 BC The important coins were minted only from silver. In addition, there have been small change made of bronze since the 4th century . The important motifs include the tanite head (possibly the head of the goddess Artemis , borrowed from Syracuse ), horse and palm.

Johann Joachim Bellermann dealt with Punic coins at the beginning of the 19th century. In 2011, the underwater archaeologist Francesco Spaggiari discovered 600 Punic bronze coins from the period 300 to 264 BC near the island of Pantelleria . Chr.

See also: Ancient Numismatics

literature

  • Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson : Punic coins of ancient Spain. And their bearing on the Roman Republican series. 1978
  • Walter Ameling : Carthage studies on the military, state and society. Munich 1993
  • Werner Huss : History of the Carthaginians. , Munich 1985 ( online )
  • Werner Huss: The Carthaginians. ( online )
  • GK Jenkins: Coins of Punic Sicily. ND Zurich 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linde Marie Günther : Coins make history. In: RUBIN ( online ; PDF file; 354 ​​kB)
  2. ^ Johann Joachim Bellermann: Remarks on Phoenician and Punic coins. 4 programs, Erfurt 1812-16. ( online )
  3. ↑ Punic coin treasure from the 3rd century BC. Found in the sea. ( online )
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