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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: Ernest babelon speaks of these coins discovered at trasimene [URL=https://books.google.com/books?id=u5QUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155&dq=ernest+babelon+negre&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0lZHf7tDUAhXCaT4KHcFRB9EQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=ernest%20babelon%20negre&f=false]https://books.google.com/books?id=u5QUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155&dq=ernest+babelon+negre&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0lZHf7tDUAhXCaT4KHcFRB9EQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=ernest%20babelon%20negre&f=fals e[/URL] Carthaginian men wore earrings just like the man on the coin "quia incedunt cum anulatis auribus" (Well here they(Carthaginians) are with ear rings) poenulus by plautus V.II. 982 [/QB][/QUOTE]^Excellent source, in French that does describe the coin found at Trasimene although the site of a battle does not mean the same location was the site of a mint where coins were struck However the text describes the head as that of Hannibal's elephant rider. If the man is an elephant rider and the elephant was Indian that does not mean that an African manhout could not also train and ride an Indian elephant. As for earrings they are not mentioned in these several pages about the coin. To my eyes I don't even see earrings worn by the men on these coins! I have also not noticed a Carthaginian artifact depicting a male with earrings, have you seen one? However earrings worn by men are numerous in Egyptian depictions of Nubians. It seems that the man in this coin might have been described as 'Aethiopian' but was Hannibal described that way? It would not be unreasonable to guess that Hannibal might have looked partially Lebanese as well as African. As to the ratio of people of Phoenician descent to people of African descent living in Carthage at the time that is not known. It was founded by a foreign culture. How would they be able to take over a larger number of Africans if there was a large number of Africans already settled there? The indigenous people of the region today are often smaller sized groups of nomadic peoples and there is no evidence of sedentary culture in the Maghreb before the Phoenicians and Greeks until you go back about a thousand years earlier. It was believed in ancient times that Africa was originally populated by Gaetulians and Libyans, both nomadic peoples. You went to great lengths in another thread of yours to say that the Carthaginians did not have coins, only leather money but now without evidence you claim that the famous Carthaginian, Hannibal commissioned this coin and at the same time say at the time he did so he was no longer Carthaginian! Furthermore in the same thread you went to great lengths to say all coins mentioned in this period depicted gods and goddesses rather than real people. But could this coin be a depiction of Hannibal himself? Maybe As for the Carthaginians you should be able to find other Carthaginian artifacts for context [/QB][/QUOTE]
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