v18_0887 - CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Statère de billon, classe II
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Statère de billon, classe II
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Brieuc (22)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 5,83 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan court de forme ovale et épais. Patine grise à reflets rougeâtres et verdâtres. Faiblesse de frappe sur le haut de la tête au droit
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Terisse
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 ; au-dessus, restes de la tête de l'aurige ; (entre les jambes, un sanglier à droite).
Commentary
Malgré le flan court et la frappe légèrement décentrée, on peut (à la forme du cheval et au type de tête) déterminer avec certitude la classe à laquelle appartient cet exemplaire.
Despite the short flank and the slightly off-center strike, one can (from the shape of the horse and the type of head) determine with certainty the class to which this specimen belongs.
Despite the short flank and the slightly off-center strike, one can (from the shape of the horse and the type of head) determine with certainty the class to which this specimen belongs.
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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