v25_0697 - CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Statère de billon, classe I
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Statère de billon, classe I
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Brieuc (22)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 21,1 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 4,23 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large avec des éclatements de métal. Faiblesse de frappe au droit, mais revers complet. Argent corné avec une patine grise et de légères concrétions marron
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, l’œil est en amande.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval stylisé, à tête aviforme, galopant à droite, devant un vexillum ; au-dessus, restes de la tête de l'aurige ; entre les jambes, un sanglier à droite.
Commentary
Très joli revers avec la queue entourée de cordons perlés. On observe une sorte de rosace sous la tête du cheval.
Very pretty lapel with the tail surrounded by pearl cords. We can see a sort of rosette under the horse's head
Very pretty lapel with the tail surrounded by pearl cords. We can see a sort of rosette under the horse's head
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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