bga_370079 - CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Statère de billon, classe IVb, œil en amande pointé
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Price : 180.00 €
Type : Statère de billon, classe IVb, œil en amande pointé
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Brieuc (22)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 6,43 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Statère sur un flan un peu irrégulier, avec une frappe vigoureuse au droit mais plus confuse au revers. patine cristallisée avec de petites zones verdâtres
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, pointu, l’œil ovale.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale bridé, galopant à droite ; au-dessus, restes de la tête de l'aurige ; entre les jambes, une lyre.
Commentary
Cet exemplaire est surtout particulier pour son droit, avec un œil pointé (comme sur le bga_227407), ce qui n’est jamais le cas sur cette classe ; seul les n° 763 et 764 du musée de Rennes ont cette particularité. Tous deux proviennent du trésor de Trébry. .
This specimen is particularly unusual for its obverse, with a pointed eye (as on bga_227407), which is never the case on this class; only nos. 763 and 764 from the Rennes museum have this particularity. Both come from the Trébry treasure.
This specimen is particularly unusual for its obverse, with a pointed eye (as on bga_227407), which is never the case on this class; only nos. 763 and 764 from the Rennes museum have this particularity. Both come from the Trébry treasure.
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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