Live auction - bga_1120191 - GALLIA - LEMOVICES (Area of Limoges) Statère à la grue
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Live starting : Type : Statère à la grue
Date: c. 100-50 BC.
Mint name / Town : Limoges (87)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,97 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan irrégulier, éclaté à divers endroits. La monnaie présente cependant de beaux reliefs. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, la chevelure en grosses mèches aquitaniques ; grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à gauche, une grue accostée de deux annelets pointés posée sur la croupe et un trèfle entre les jambes ; une esse devant la tête du cheval.
Commentary
Ces statères existent avec la tête et le revers à droite ou à gauche ; les différentes liaisons de coins offrent quatre combinaisons possibles. Avec la tête à droite et le revers à gauche, cet exemplaire est assez rare.
These staters exist with the head and reverse facing either right or left; the different die links offer four possible combinations. With the head facing right and the reverse left, this example is quite rare.
These staters exist with the head and reverse facing either right or left; the different die links offer four possible combinations. With the head facing right and the reverse left, this example is quite rare.
Historical background
GALLIA - LEMOVICES (Area of Limoges)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Celtic people who left their name in Limoges and Limousin. The origin of its name comes once again from lemo or limo which can be translated as elm. Skilled traders, specialized in export, they were perhaps the secret allies of the Romans which could explain Caesar's silence on this people who nevertheless extended their power to the Atlantic coasts. Nevertheless, Caesar estimates at ten thousand men the Lemovice contingent sent against him to clear Alesia in 52 BC. After the conquest, from 50 BC, Caesar would have installed several Roman camps on the Lemovice territory in order to be able to monitor the Arvernian territory. Caesar (BG. VII, 4, 75, 88). Strabo (G. IV, 2, 2).
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