Live auction - bmv_347050 - RODEZ (RUTENIS CIVITAS) - Aveyron Triens, VINDIMIVS monétaire

RODEZ (RUTENIS CIVITAS) - Aveyron Triens, VINDIMIVS monétaire AU

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Estimate :	3 500 €
Price :	2 000 €
Maximum bid :	2 510 €
End of the sale :	31 March 2015 15:18:31
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Triens, VINDIMIVS monétaire

Date: c. 600-675

Mint name / Town : Rodez (12)

Metal : gold

Diameter : 12 mm

Orientation dies : 9 h.

Weight : 1,28 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Triens d’un style particulier, sur un flan court et ovale, avec un beau portrait mais une légende mal venue et/ou hors flan. Revers incomplet

Catalogue references :

B.3878 ss - P.- - MEC.1/cf. 442 - Laf/L.- - Mon4.cf. p. 48-49

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .

Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé à droite.

Reverse

Reverse description : Monogramme formé des lettres de RVTENIS.

Commentary

Bien que les légendes soient très mal venues, le VIN du revers permet de restituer ce triens au monétaire VINDIMIVS qui fut très productif avec une très vaste série de triens, principalement différenciés par le style du droit et par le motif qui orne le droit devant le visage. Sans ce motif et avec un revers incomplet il est difficile de préciser le classement de ce triens. L’avers avec ce style de tête et les trois globules au niveau de la bouche correspond aux n° 439 et 440 de Cambridge.

Historical background

RODEZ (RUTENIS CIVITAS) - Aveyron

(7th-8th centuries)

Rodez is a two-thousand-year-old city: its existence dates back to the 5th century BC. J.-C., when a Celtic people from central Europe, the Rutenes, stopped in the south of Auvergne to found one of these oppida characteristic of the Gallic civilization, that of Segodunum. Many heritage elements testify to the Romanization of Segodunum. While Christianity spread in the wake of the evangelizing action of Saint Amans, the city did not escape the troubles of the barbaric times which followed the fall of the Roman Empire. Rodez was successively occupied by the Visigoths, the Franks, the armies of the Dukes of Aquitaine and the Counts of Toulouse, as well as by the Moors, who invested it in 725 and brought down the ancient church..