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Live auction - bga_651040 - BITURIGES CUBI / CARNUTES, UNSPECIFIED Potin à l’animal retourné du Loir-et-Cher

BITURIGES CUBI / CARNUTES, UNSPECIFIED Potin à l’animal retourné du Loir-et-Cher AU
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Estimate : 200 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 27 April 2021 16:10:09
Type : Potin à l’animal retourné du Loir-et-Cher
Date: c. Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 15 mm
Weight : 1,8 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire dans un état de conservation rare pour ce type ! Jolie patine
Catalogue references :
LT.manque  - DT.2676

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, le nez très saillant, la joue se confondant avec le crâne ; chevelure en une ligne perlée.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Animal indéterminé à droite, retournant la tête en arrière.

Historical background

BITURIGES CUBI / CARNUTES, UNSPECIFIED

(1st century BC)

The traditional attribution gives this badly known potin to the Bituriges Cubes while an attribution to the Carnutes is possible with regard to the places of discoveries. If the head resembles known coins, sometimes of distant inspiration (bellovaque or éburovices), the reverse remains enigmatic. We are certainly dealing with a local coinage, of "Pagus" as we say in our Celtic jargon, Simone Scheers going so far as to evoke a border coinage on the borders of the Bituriges and Carnutes countries. After the end of the war when Gaul was totally conquered, many substitution coins, of "necessity" appeared in order to replace or supplement the monetary circulation..

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