v18_0890 - CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Quart de statère de billon, classe V b
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 275.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 276.00 €
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 275.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 276.00 €
Type : Quart de statère de billon, classe V b
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Brieuc (22)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 1,18 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Frappé sur un flan irrégulier, avec de légères concrétions vertes. Droit bien centré mais revers très décentré, avec seulement la lyre complètement visible
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à droite, chevelure en (trois) rouleaux, les cheveux divisés en grosses mèches en forme de 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
Les divisionnaires sont beaucoup plus rares pour le monnayage des Coriosolites et se rencontrent principalement dans le trésor de Jersey. Le Muret Chabouillet ne répertorie que cinq exemplaires, toutes classes confondues, de quarts de statère coriosolites, dont un seul (BN 6713) avec la croix devant le cheval et avec une lyre renversée entre les pattes. Cet exemplaire est du même type que celui vendu dans MONNAIES XV, n° 786.
Divisional coins are much rarer for Coriosolite coinage and are found mainly in the Jersey hoard. The Muret Chabouillet lists only five examples, all classes combined, of Coriosolite quarter staters, including only one (BN 6713) with the cross in front of the horse and with an inverted lyre between the legs. This example is of the same type as that sold in MONNAIES XV, no. 786
Divisional coins are much rarer for Coriosolite coinage and are found mainly in the Jersey hoard. The Muret Chabouillet lists only five examples, all classes combined, of Coriosolite quarter staters, including only one (BN 6713) with the cross in front of the horse and with an inverted lyre between the legs. This example is of the same type as that sold in MONNAIES XV, no. 786
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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