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Live auction - bga_411517 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme à la swastika, “COVERTOMOTVL”

GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme à la swastika, “COVERTOMOTVL” AU/AU
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Estimate : 5 000 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 13 December 2016 14:59:00
Type : Drachme à la swastika, “COVERTOMOTVL”
Date: IIe-Ier siècles av. J.-C.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,79 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie exceptionnelle, avec une frappe centrée mais un peu molle au revers et un revers de qualité idéale. Belle patine grise de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du Trésor du Causé (1897) et de la collection de Georges Savès ; c’est le S. 393 (* Revers) de son ouvrage

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Swastika, aux quatre bras en esses contournées, flammées et marquées d’un point central, à leur jonction ; quatre esses, bouletées aux extrémités, se trouvent entre les bras.

Reverse


Reverse legend : [COVE / RTOM] / OTVL.
Reverse description : Dans une rouelle à quatre rayons, une olivette avec tigelle et unie au centre aux 1er, 2e et 4e canton ; une hache évidée à gauche, ayant trois points en triangle entre la hache et le manche, au 3e canton ; la légende divisée en trois répartie dans les 4e, 2e et 1er cantons.

Commentary


Drachme d’un type rarrissime sur le marché, pour lequel R. Boudet répertorie néanmoins 15 monnaies, avec seulement deux provenances géographiques ; cinq de Vieille-Toulouse et deux (dont celui-ci) du Causé.
Cet exemplaire de la Collection Savès n’est que le troisième que nous proposons, après le n° 902 de MONNAIES 24 et le n° 590 de MONNAIES 25.

Historical background


GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos)

(1st century BC)

The Sotiates or Sontiates inhabited the southwest of the current department of Lot-et-Garonne, as well as part of the Gers and the Landes, and were placed between the Elusates and the Nitiobroges. Their oppidum was Sos. If the people of the Sotiates is not itself mentioned in the Commentaries, Adietuanus, their leader, is (BG. III, 22). The latter was submitted by Publius Licinius Crassus, lieutenant of Caesar, the son of Crassus who was to die in 53 BC at the battle of Carrhae, moreover with his son. Adietanus would have surrendered to Caesar's lieutenant only after the capitulation of Sos, the capital of his people. Rallying to the Romans, the sotiate chief received the title of "Rex". Sources: Caesar (BG. III, 20, 21 and 22).

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