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Live auction - bga_431720 - GALLIA - CARNUTES (Beauce area) Quart de statère d'or à la cavalière sans bras

GALLIA - CARNUTES (Beauce area) Quart de statère d or à la cavalière sans bras AU
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Estimate : 4 000 €
Price : 4 100 €
Maximum bid : 4 200 €
End of the sale : 13 June 2017 15:15:41
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Quart de statère d'or à la cavalière sans bras
Date: IIe siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Chartres (28)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 12,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,09 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan régulier mais un tout petit peu trop court au revers, avec des types bien centrés. Frappe particulièrement vigoureuse au revers, mais un peu plus molle au droit, avec une rayure sur la joue et de petits coups sur la chevelure et sur la tranche
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, la chevelure très finement travaillée en petites mèches, l’oreille nettement marquée et le cou orné d’un collier de perles.

Reverse


Reverse legend : LÉGENDE SIMULÉE À L’EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Cheval à gauche, conduit par une cavalière sans bras, mais avec les main marquées ; entre les jambes, un annelet perlé.

Commentary


Bien que cet exemplaire ne corresponde pas exactement au DT. S2077D, il s’insère assez nettement dans la même série. Si ce quart se distingue de celui du Nouvel Atlas et de celui de Zürich par l’absence de la grosse mèche sur la joue, son revers est particulièrement proche du n° 358 de Zürich (sans la longue tige de blé). Une pseudo-légende se devine, en bord de flan sous la ligne d’exergue au revers.
La seule provenance connue pour les monnaies de cette série semble être au sud-ouest d’Etampes (Essone), ce qui coïncide avec une probable attribution aux Carnutes..

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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