Scipio Africanus is the main Roman general responsible for the defeat of Hannibal and Carthage in the 2nd punic war setting the stage for Roman dominion of the whole Mediterranean.
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These are two of my acqusitions from the ANA. They are pretty scarce and hard to price because of this.
Scipio Africanus is the main Roman general responsible for the defeat of Hannibal and Carthage in the 2nd punic war setting the stage for Roman dominion of the whole Mediterranean.
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Scipio Africanus is the main Roman general responsible for the defeat of Hannibal and Carthage in the 2nd punic war setting the stage for Roman dominion of the whole Mediterranean.
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Love them 
I really have to get a nice Cartaginian coin sometime they are just lovely.
I really have to get a nice Cartaginian coin sometime they are just lovely.
QUOTE(Scottishmoney @ Aug 15 2007, 09:51 PM) 
Love them
I really have to get a nice Cartaginian coin sometime they are just lovely.
I really have to get a nice Cartaginian coin sometime they are just lovely.
Don't you mean Roman or at least Spanish?
No, Carthage was an entity unto it's own. Try calling Hannibal a Roman.
QUOTE(Scottishmoney @ Aug 16 2007, 08:50 PM)
No, Carthage was an entity unto it's own. Try calling Hannibal a Roman.
Yes, but those coins were minted in Carthago Nova after 209 BC
Yeah, those were.
QUOTE(Scottishmoney @ Aug 16 2007, 09:09 PM)
Yeah, those were.
So since it was struck under Roman authority can't it be called Roman?
I'm sure they used the dies or die cutters that were already there...
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