Live auction - bga_1117040 - EMPORION and Celtic imitations (AMPURIAS) Drachme au cheval et à la victoire
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Live starting : Type : Drachme au cheval et à la victoire
Date: c. 240-220 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,61 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Très belle drachme dans un état rare pour le type avec un très beau portrait au droit. Revers un peu plus mou. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Provient de la collection du Colonel Jean-Paul Beaulieu
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête féminine à droite, un ruban retient les mèches de la chevelure ; quelques cheveux retombent sur le cou ; deux dauphins devant le visage et un derrière la tête.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval au pas à gauche, surmonté d’une victoire stylisée, tenant une couronne.
Commentary
Cette drachme est d’un très bon style, peu stylisé.
This drachma is in a very good style, not very stylized.
This drachma is in a very good style, not very stylized.
Historical background
EMPORION and Celtic imitations (AMPURIAS)
(3rd - 2nd century BC)
The notion of people or tribe seems to disappear with regard to certain attributions when we examine the imitation coins of Emporion or Rhodè. If the prototypes are struck beyond the Pyrenees, the imitations were issued on both sides of the mountain range. The early death of R. Boudet (1958-1995) did not allow him to establish a corpus of these coins. The finds are not limited to Aquitaine, but are spread over the great West between the Loire and the Pyrenees, i.e. nearly a third of the territory of ancient Gaul. The finds of imitations of the drachma of Emporion, which seems to have had a wider distribution, are numerous and spread over the whole of the geographical area: from Charnizay in the Indre-et-Loire or Issoudun in the 'Indre to Ruscino in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
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