bga_984078 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Quart de statère d'électrum au personnage recroquevillé – à l'aurige et à la croisette
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Type : Quart de statère d'électrum au personnage recroquevillé – à l'aurige et à la croisette
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 1,15 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan légèrement décentré. Agréable tête au droit, revers un peu plus brouillon. Patine aux reflets cuivrés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, la chevelure en trois grosses mèches ; cordons perlés enroulés autour .
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale à gauche ; au-dessus, restes de la tête de l'aurige au bout d'un cordon perlé ; un petit personnage ailé (?) entre les jambes du cheval.
Commentary
Ce quart semble être une réduction modulaire du statère (DT.2208), les quarts répertoriés ayant tous le droit et revers à droite.
This quarter appears to be a modular reduction of the stater (DT.2208), the listed quarters all having the obverse and reverse right
This quarter appears to be a modular reduction of the stater (DT.2208), the listed quarters all having the obverse and reverse right
Historical background
GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère)
(2nd - 1st centuries BC)
The Osismes were an Armorican people, settled in the current department of Finistère, at the northwestern end of Gaul and the Armorican coasts. They had as chief town Vorgium, today Carhaix. Their neighbors were the Veneti and the Coriosolites. Their name would mean "the furthest away" or "the people at the end of the world". They were subjugated by Caesar's army in 57 along with the other Armorican peoples. But from 56, they joined the coalition led by the Venetians. They will participate in the contingent of twenty-five thousand men provided in 52 BC to the army of the Gallic coalition by the Armorican peoples. Caesar (BG. II, 34, III, 9, VII, 75, 1). Pliny (HN IV, 107). Ptolemy (II, 8). Kruta, page 766.
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