• shekel, probably pronounced /səˈḳel/ in Punic. Only a minority of Carthaginian coinage was produced or used in North Africa. Instead, the majority derive...
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    where Carthage prevails over and subjugates Rome. Carthage Carthaginian coinage Carthaginian Iberia History of Carthage History of Tunisia Roman Carthage...
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    Punic people (redirect from Carthaginians)
    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Punic people, usually known as the Carthaginians (and sometimes as Western Phoenicians), were a Semitic people who migrated...
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    and Phoenicians used the shekel, although proper coinage developed very late. Carthaginian coinage was based on the shekel and may have preceded its...
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    was discovered in the locality of La Safa in 1864. The presence of Carthaginian coinage issued by the Barcids alongside an early Roman denarius implies the...
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    220ff (cited in. HN Italy, p. 161). Carthaginian shekel E.S.G Robinson, Carthaginian and other South Italian coinages of the Second Punic War, Numismatic...
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    Mediterranean, and so there are links to the Greek, Roman and Punic (Carthaginian) civic coinages. Yet there are also many points of difference that reflect dynamics...
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    then built a navy to challenge the Carthaginians, and using novel tactics inflicted several defeats. A Carthaginian base on Corsica was seized, but an...
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    The Numidians were one of the earliest Berber tribes to trade with Carthaginian settlers. As Carthage grew, the relationship with the Numidians blossomed...
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    Electrum (category Coinage metals and alloys)
    were issued by the Carthaginians. In the later Eastern Roman Empire controlled from Constantinople the purity of the gold coinage was reduced [quantify]...
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  • Aegates Islands, off the western coast of the island of Sicily. The Carthaginians were commanded by Hanno, and the Romans were under the overall authority...
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    Silver coin (redirect from Silver coinage)
    Silver coins are one of the oldest mass-produced form of coinage. Silver has been used as a coinage metal since the times of the Greeks; their silver drachmas...
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    Phoenicians and Carthaginians, the Etruscans were rather slow to adopt the invention of coinage. The brief period of Etruscan coinage, with the predominance...
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    Tyrian shekel (category Phoenician coinage)
    the Jews were given autonomy. They were replaced by First Jewish Revolt coinage in 66 AD. The Tyrian shekels were considered tetradrachms by the Greeks...
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    (264–241 BC), supported by uprisings of African settlements revolting against Carthaginian control. It lasted from 241 to late 238 or early 237 BC and ended with...
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    the 4th century BC coinage became scarce. Punic coins and Corinthian staters were the principal currencies in circulation. Carthaginian expansion in Sicily...
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    the equivalence to the French franc. Money portal Tunisian dinar Carthaginian coinage Tunisian franc Krause, Chester L.; Clifford Mishler (1991). Standard...
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    and the Selinuntines in calling on the Carthaginians to come and restore Terillus to power. The Carthaginians did invade in 480 BC, the first of the Greco-Punic...
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    pre-eminence in the Gulf of Lion, trade was mainly handled by Etruscans and Carthaginians. The Greeks of Massalia had recurrent conflicts with Gauls and Ligurians...
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    (Pane or Pene, "Face"), as the face of Carthaginian goddess Tanit was represented on nearly all Carthaginian currency. Following decimalization, the...
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    Punic War, he won Rome's first ever victory at sea by defeating the Carthaginians at the Battle of Mylae. He later served as censor in 258, and was appointed...
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    Abdera was an ancient Carthaginian and Roman port on a hill above the modern Adra on the southeastern Mediterranean coast of Spain. It was located between...
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    including bronze, and agricultural techniques. In the centuries preceding Carthaginian and Roman conquest, Iberian settlements grew in social complexity, exhibiting...
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    with Rome, and Syphax of the Masaesyli switched his allegiance to the Carthaginian side. At the end of the war, Numidia was under the rule of Masinissa...
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    solidus was replaced in Syria and Egypt with the dinar. Initially, the new coinage contained depictions of the caliph as the spiritual leader of the Muslim...
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    paintings, and sculptures, cameo carvings and glass, Ptolemaic and Roman coinage, and reliefs. In Renaissance and Baroque art, she was the subject of many...
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    Carolingian Empire lived under a legal code that directly copied from Roman law. Coinage had a strong association with the Roman Empire, and Charlemagne took up...
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    presented themselves on his route, Ophellas succeeded in reaching the Carthaginian territories after a toilsome and perilous march of more than two months...
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    Corieltauvi, Durotriges, Dobunni and Iceni, appear to have minted their own coinage. The coins in the core area are generally attributed to the Atrebates and...
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    (Ἀδράμητος) and Adrumetum (Ἀδρούμητον). Surviving Roman inscriptions and coinage standardized its latinization as Hadrumetum but it appears in other sources...
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