Live auction - bga_412258 - GALLIA - BAÏOCASSES (Area of Bayeux) Statère de billon au sanglier, “style figuratif”
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| Estimate : | 900 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 13 December 2016 15:13:00 |
Type : Statère de billon au sanglier, “style figuratif”
Date: IIe - Ier siècles AC.
Mint name / Town : Bayeux (14)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 23,00 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 5,68 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Statère de billon frappé sur un flan large et ovale. Le droit et le revers sont parfaitement centrés et complets, avec tous les détails bien venus. La patine est très épaisse, homogène au droit, mais avec des zones plus sombres au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à droite, les cheveux en grosses mèches ; un sanglier enseigne et un cordon perlé dans la chevelure.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale galopant à droite ; un sanglier à droite, entre les jambes du cheval ; au-dessus du dos, l'aurige tenant le vexillum devant la tête du cheval.
Commentary
Portrait complet de “style figuratif” avec le petit sanglier enseigne dans la chevelure. Au revers, le cheval est androcéphale et conduit par un aurige complet sur cet exemplaire..
Full-length portrait in “figurative style” with the small boar ensign in the hair. On the reverse, the horse is androcephalic and led by a full charioteer in this example.
Full-length portrait in “figurative style” with the small boar ensign in the hair. On the reverse, the horse is androcephalic and led by a full charioteer in this example.
Historical background
GALLIA - BAÏOCASSES (Area of Bayeux)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Baïocasses or Bodiocasses are not mentioned in Caesar's Gallic Wars. It is Pliny the Elder who speaks of it first. The Baiocasses occupied part of present-day Normandy, the Bessin. Their neighbors were the Unelles, the Viducasses and the Véliocasses. Their main oppidum was Augustodurum (Bayeux). Pliny (HN. IV, 107). Ptolemy (G. II, 8).
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