bga_403548 - GALLIA - CARNUTES (Beauce area) Bronze aux oiseaux et à la branche
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Price : 380.00 €
Type : Bronze aux oiseaux et à la branche
Date: Ier siècle av. J.-C
Mint name / Town : Chartres (28)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 2,09 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bronze sur un flan un peu court avec un avers à peu près complet. Les types sont bien identifiables avec une patine sombre
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE (?).
Obverse description : Tête chevelue à gauche ; légende dégénérée devant le visage ; grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Aigle à droite avec un aiglon dans ses serres ; une branche aux extrémités bouletées derrière l'aigle ; trois petits globules posés en triangle au-dessus de l'aiglon ; grènetis.
Commentary
Ce type à l’aigle et à l’aiglon est très rare ; il correspond exactement au n° 812 de MONNAIES 31 et au bga_318813 qui étaient alors presque inconnus.
Cette rare série a depuis été étudiée dans les Cahiers de la SENA, “ESOYDA, notable et monétaire entre les Aulerques et les Carnutes”, par L.-P. Delestrée et D. Thavard (C.N. 196 de juin 2013 p. 17 à 22).
L’exemplaire n° 418 de MONNAIES 57 était surfrappé sur un bronze DT. 2607, ce qui confirme encore une aire de circulation aulerco-carnute.
Typologiquement, ce type à l’aigle semble pouvoir s’intégrer dans la série des bronzes Carnutes.
This type with the eagle and the eaglet is very rare; it corresponds exactly to n° 812 of MONNAIES 31 and to bga_318813 which were then almost unknown. This rare series has since been studied in the Cahiers de la SENA, “ESOYDA, notable et monétaire entre les Aulerques et les Carnutes”, by L.-P. Delestrée and D. Thavard (CN 196 of June 2013 p. 17 to 22). Copy n° 418 of MONNAIES 57 was overstruck on a bronze DT. 2607, which further confirms an Aulerco-Carnute circulation area. Typologically, this type with the eagle seems to fit into the series of Carnutes bronzes
Cette rare série a depuis été étudiée dans les Cahiers de la SENA, “ESOYDA, notable et monétaire entre les Aulerques et les Carnutes”, par L.-P. Delestrée et D. Thavard (C.N. 196 de juin 2013 p. 17 à 22).
L’exemplaire n° 418 de MONNAIES 57 était surfrappé sur un bronze DT. 2607, ce qui confirme encore une aire de circulation aulerco-carnute.
Typologiquement, ce type à l’aigle semble pouvoir s’intégrer dans la série des bronzes Carnutes.
This type with the eagle and the eaglet is very rare; it corresponds exactly to n° 812 of MONNAIES 31 and to bga_318813 which were then almost unknown. This rare series has since been studied in the Cahiers de la SENA, “ESOYDA, notable et monétaire entre les Aulerques et les Carnutes”, by L.-P. Delestrée and D. Thavard (CN 196 of June 2013 p. 17 to 22). Copy n° 418 of MONNAIES 57 was overstruck on a bronze DT. 2607, which further confirms an Aulerco-Carnute circulation area. Typologically, this type with the eagle seems to fit into the series of Carnutes bronzes
Historical background
GALLIA - CARNUTES (Beauce area)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Carnutes were one of the most important and powerful peoples of independent Gaul. Their territory stretched between the Loire and the Seine over the Orléanais, the Blésois and the Chartrain country as far as Mantes, that is to say the greater part of the current departments of Loiret, Loir-et-Cher and Eure-et-Loir and part of Yvelines. Their economic center was located in Genabum (Orléans), but their main oppidum seems to have been Autricum (Chartres). They would have participated in the legendary Bellovèse expedition to Italy. They formed the geographical center of Gaul and, long before the start of the Gallic Wars, Roman merchants knew the way to Genabum (Orléans), then a major commercial center. The Carnutes were also famous for their forest where the annual meeting of the Druids was held.. At the start of the War, Caesar had wintered with the Carnutes in 57 BC.. -VS. and had imposed on them as king Tasgetios, who was assassinated in 54 BC. -VS. The following year, they submit but at the beginning of 52 BC. -VS. , they are perhaps at the origin of the revolt which will raise the whole of Gaul. It is possible that the conspirators met during a druidic assembly. The Carnutes massacred the Roman settlers and merchants of Genabum (Orleans) under the leadership of Cotuatos and Conconnétodumnos. Caesar came to besiege the city which he took, pillaged and burned, marking the beginning of hostilities. The Carnutes then provided a contingent of twelve thousand men to the relief army in order to clear Alesia. After the fall of Vercingetorix, the following year, the Romans carried out a new campaign of pacification and Caesar punished the assassins of the previous year. Caesar (BG. II. 35; V, 25, 29, 56; VI, 2-4, 13, 44; VII. 2, 3, 11, 75; VIII. 4, 5, 31, 38, 46). Strabo (G. IV, 2, 3); Livy (HR. V, 34). Ptolemy (G. II, 8). Kruta: 68, 187, 334.
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