bga_875033 - CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Statère de billon, classe VI - hybride
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Price : 220.00 €
Type : Statère de billon, classe VI - hybride
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Brieuc (22)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 5,38 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan bien centré des deux côtés, L’usure est régulière. Un coup est à noter à gauche à l’avers, et le revers comporte une rayure en son centre. Monnaie agréable cependant. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
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 en forme de 2 à l’envers.
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 VI, et l’avers est bien caractéristique de la classe Vb. Il s’agit très probablement d’un hybride.
The right is characteristic of class VI, and the obverse is characteristic of class Vb. It is most likely a hybrid
The right is characteristic of class VI, and the obverse is characteristic of class Vb. It is most likely a hybrid
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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CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Statère de billon, classe VI - hy
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