bga_596328 - CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Statère de billon, classe Vb
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Price : 320.00 €
Type : Statère de billon, classe Vb
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Brieuc (22)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,43 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire complet et recouvert d’une jolie patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à droite, chevelure en trois rouleaux, les cheveux divisés en grosses mèches en forme d’S, le nez réaliste, pointé, l’œil ovale.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale bridé, galopant à droite ; au-dessus, restes de la tête de l'aurige et hampe pointée ; entre les jambes, une lyre ; devant la bouche, une croisette.
Commentary
Le droit est caractéristique de la classe V, avec l’œil ovale de face et le nez en forme de crosse bouletée au bout. Le revers se distingue en deux variétés, a ou b, selon la présence d’une croisette ou d’un rinceau devant l’androcéphale. Avec la croisette bien nette, cet exemplaire appartient à la classe Vb. La lyre du revers est commune aux classes VIb, V et IV.
The right one is characteristic of class V, with the oval eye from the front and the ball-shaped nose at the tip. The reverse is distinguished in two varieties, a or b, depending on the presence of a cross or a scroll in front of the androcephalus. With the very clear cross, this example belongs to class Vb. The lyre on the reverse is common to classes VIb, V and IV
The right one is characteristic of class V, with the oval eye from the front and the ball-shaped nose at the tip. The reverse is distinguished in two varieties, a or b, depending on the presence of a cross or a scroll in front of the androcephalus. With the very clear cross, this example belongs to class Vb. The lyre on the reverse is common to classes VIb, V and IV
Historical background
CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Coriosolites were an Armorican people, settled in the current department of Côtes-d'Armor. They had for neighbors the Osismes, the Vénètes, the Namnètes and the Redons. They were a seafaring people whose main port seems to have been Alet. Their name is still preserved today in that of Corseul. They played an important role in trade with insular Britain, took part in the campaign of 57 BC and were subjugated by Crassus. The following year, they again participated in the revolt of the Armoricans under the leadership of the Veneti with the Unelles and the Lexoviens, all crushed by Caesar. In 52 BC, the Coriosolites participated in the contingent of twenty thousand men that the Armoricans sent to free Vercingetorix, besieged in Alesia. Caesar (BG. II, 34; III, 7, 11; VII, 75). Pliny (HN IV, 107) Kruta: 108, 355, 366.
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