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Live auction - bga_423755 - GALLIA BELGICA - BELLOVACI (Area of Beauvais) Bronze au coq, “type d’Hallencourt”

GALLIA BELGICA - BELLOVACI (Area of Beauvais) Bronze au coq, “type d’Hallencourt” AU/AU
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Estimate : 1 000 €
Price : 600 €
Maximum bid : 600 €
End of the sale : 14 March 2017 15:08:49
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Bronze au coq, “type d’Hallencourt”
Date: c. Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Beauvais (60)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 2,72 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Rare bronze d’une qualité exceptionnelle, avec des types complets sur un flan large, avec de beaux reliefs et une superbe patine vert bien stable
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée à droite, imitée de Rome ; à droite, une lyre ; un torque à la base du cou ; nombreux petits motifs ornementaux .

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Coq debout à droite, le corps formé d'une tête humaine barbue, et la tête stylisée ; de chaque côté, nombreux motifs ornementaux.

Commentary


Monnaie d’un type rare et encore plus rarement aussi complet ; droit et revers de qualité exceptionnelle, avec l'ensemble des types bien nets. En vingt ans, nous n’avons proposé qu’une vingtaine de bronzes de ce type, la plupart dans un état de conservation limité ; cet exemplaire est probablement l’uns des plus beaux que nous ayons rencontré ! La tête coupée du revers a même un fin collier de perles bien visible.

Historical background


GALLIA BELGICA - BELLOVACI (Area of Beauvais)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Bellovaques, people of Belgian Gaul, occupied the current department of Oise. Their neighbors were the Parisii, the Véliocasses, the Calètes, the Ambiens and the Suessions.. Caesar (BG. VII. 59) considers the Bellovaci as the "most valiant people in all of Gaul". Before the Gallic Wars, the Bellovaci had been allies of the Aedui. In 57 BC. -VS. , they were the architects of the uprising of the Belgian peoples, provided a contingent of sixty thousand warriors to the coalition, but were defeated and found refuge on their oppidum of Bratuspantium. In 52 BC. -VS. , they had promised a contingent of ten thousand men for the relief army. They recanted, claiming to fight the Romans alone. Finally, at the prayer of Commius, they gave two thousand men to the coalition. The following year, in 51 BC. -VS. , they took for the last time the head of a revolt of the Belgian people. Corréos, Bellovaque chief, led the sedition in order to fight the Romans with the Atrébates, the Ambiens, the Aulerques Éburovices, the Calètes and the Véliocasses. With the atrebate Commios, Correos met the Roman armies on the borders of the Bellovaci and Suession countries.. Correos was killed, which put an end to hostilities definitively.. The main oppidum of the Bellovaci was Bratuspantium which is difficult to identify with certainty with the Roman city of Caesaromagus (Beauvais). Caesar. (BG. II, 4, 5, 10, 13, 14; V, 46; VII, 59, 75, 90; viii, 6, 7, 12, 14-17, 20-23, 38). Strabo (G. IV, 3-5). Pliny (HN. IV, 106). Ptolemy (G. II, 9). Kruta: 68, 351.

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