Hello, first of all my point with this post is not to have a discussion whether Hannibal was black skinned or mixed.
And i am sorry if this has been asked before but i could not find anything about this.
So during my research regarding Hannibal i have 2 times now found posts on internet that tells a different story then what other had said. These posts however mentions 0 sources, and i mean that, i try to find anything that tells the story on where the coin was found or where the statue was found, nothing nada.
So my point with this post is to found out what the source is that tells us where this statue was found and the coin cause there 0 that i can find myself, and i consider myself good at this normally. So again my point is not have a discussion regarding the skin color, i personally do not care what skin color he had, i just want to find sources that tells us where it was found and what scientists/historians have discussed the origin of the item and so on.
So the items i want to ask are these 2:
https://imgur.com/9elDmdh - Statue
https://imgur.com/sg0HFoR - Coin
Lastly, of all other coins & statues i have found tons of sources that tells where the statue was found or where it was located and what historians have discussed about it and scientific dating of coins and so on. I have found tons of that, but with these 2 items 0 sources exists for them. So again, please lets not get into a race discussion, lets just get into a where the heck does these 2 items come from and why is there no sources about their discovery
The statue was found during an excavation of the House of the Millstones (Caseggiato dei Molini) in Ostia Antica between 1913 and 1915 by archaeologists Raffaele Finelli and Guido Calza. Altohugh the statue itself has not been dated, it was found in the remains of a building first erected in the 2nd century and destroyed by a fire in the 3rd century. It is today on display in the Museo Ostiense alongside the other treasures found in the House of the Millstones. The source of its discovery can be found in the Journal of Roman Studies 5 (1915), 165-172. It is also referenced in Frank M. Snowden's Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience.
The coin you are showing was minted in Arretium (Arezzo, Italy) in the years 208 or 207 BCE, which is coherent with Hannibal's period in Italy, but there is nothing more to it. The presence of black african heads in Etruscan cois is nothing really new, they had been featured in Etruscan coins for decades, as attested by this other coin (preserved in the British Museum) from 3 to 7 decades earlier and from the same place.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1946-0101-31
The coin you are showing is catalogued here by CNG coins, with appropriate bibliography for it, but does not mention any possibility of the black man being Hannibal. I guess the website you happened to check took the image from there or a similar site.