The Coins as Witness to the Political Leverage of the Kingdom of Numidia in Tripolitania
Leptis Magna & its environs [as a model]
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https://doi.org/10.59743/jaf.v8i1.345Keywords:
kingdom of Numidia, Massinissa, Coins, Tripolitania, Leptis Magna and its environAbstract
This research sheds light on coins as archaeological witness of the political Leverage of the kingdom of Numidia in Tripolitania, The research topic aims to highlight the geographical extent leverage in the region that located in the east of the kingdom. The coins that discovered in Leptis Magna and in its environs of territories range in date from the late Third and the middle of the Second centuries B.C. In this research, the researcher relied on the descriptive-analytical approach, which led to significant results, that the sites of discovered coins in the region were similar topographically despite their geographical differences. Forthermore,they coincided historically with sites of Carthagian-Punic and Roman settlements, and politically with the period of the rule of King Massinissa and some of his successors after him, between the late Third and the middle of the Second centuries B.C.
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