v28_0618 - CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Statère de billon, classe V b, hybride vénèto-coriosolite
MONNAIES 28 (2007)
Starting price : 220.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
Realised price : 355.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 220.00 €
Starting price : 220.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
Realised price : 355.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 220.00 €
Type : Statère de billon, classe V b, hybride vénèto-coriosolite
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Brieuc (22)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 6 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Agréable monnaie, malgré une faiblesse de frappe au revers sur la tête du cheval. Très beau droit stylisé. Une patine sombre met en valeur les reliefs légèrement plus clairs. Un coup de burin au revers, avec des traces vertes d'oxyde de cuivre
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
Ce statère appartient bien au monnayage coriosolite, mais son aspect fait plutôt penser au monnayage des Vénètes, de même que son type de droit qui se rapproche très exactement (et étrangement ?) de la classe VI des Vénètes. Ce phénomène confirme la contemporanéité de la classe V des Coriosolites avec la classe VI des Vénètes. Au revers, on peut observer une frise sous la ligne d’exergue perlée.
This stater does indeed belong to the coriosolite coinage, but its appearance is more reminiscent of the Veneti coinage, as is its obverse type, which is very close (and strangely?) to the class VI of the Veneti. This phenomenon confirms the contemporaneity of the class V of the Coriosolites with the class VI of the Veneti. On the reverse, we can observe a frieze under the pearl exergue line
This stater does indeed belong to the coriosolite coinage, but its appearance is more reminiscent of the Veneti coinage, as is its obverse type, which is very close (and strangely?) to the class VI of the Veneti. This phenomenon confirms the contemporaneity of the class V of the Coriosolites with the class VI of the Veneti. On the reverse, we can observe a frieze under the pearl exergue line
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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