bga_308972 - CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Quart de statère de billon, classe VI avers, hybride Vb revers
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Price : 300.00 €
Type : Quart de statère de billon, classe VI avers, hybride Vb revers
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Brieuc (22)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 13?( mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,57 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Petite monnaie bien identifiable, avec des types de droit et de revers presque complets. Patine grise, un peu granuleuse
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection A. G. de Vannes. C’était le n° 1158 de MONNAIES 43
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 en 2 à l’envers, cordons perlés devant le visage.
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 penchée ; devant le cheval, une croix.
Commentary
Si le nez du droit se rapporte aux statères de la classe VI, le revers est quant à lui quasiment l'exacte réduction modulaire du statère de la classe V.
If the nose of the obverse relates to the staters of class VI, the reverse is almost the exact modular reduction of the stater of class V
If the nose of the obverse relates to the staters of class VI, the reverse is almost the exact modular reduction of the stater of class V
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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