v43_1157 - CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Statère de billon, classe VI avers, hybride V revers
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 220.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
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Starting price : 220.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Statère de billon, classe VI avers, hybride V revers
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Brieuc (22)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 5,8 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire stylisé, frappé sur un flan relativement large et irrégulier. Le droit est complet mais le revers est un tout petit peu court, bien qu’idéalement centré. Patine grise, légèrement cristallisée
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, un sanglier enseigne ; devant le cheval, une barrière.
Commentary
Ce statère a un droit très proche de la monnaie précédente, mais le revers au sanglier fait place à celui à la lyre, typique de la classe V. Il est difficile d’affiner le classement du revers, la présence d’une éventuelle croix étant hasardeuse car hors flan.
Le style du droit est très proche du DT. S 2333 A qui a aussi un revers à la lyre, mais avec un vexillum en forme de deux triangles opposés par leur sommet.
This stater has an obverse very close to the previous coin, but the reverse with the boar gives way to that with the lyre, typical of class V. It is difficult to refine the classification of the reverse, the presence of a possible cross being risky because it is off-flan. The style of the obverse is very close to DT. S 2333 A which also has a reverse with the lyre, but with a vexillum in the form of two triangles opposed by their summit
Le style du droit est très proche du DT. S 2333 A qui a aussi un revers à la lyre, mais avec un vexillum en forme de deux triangles opposés par leur sommet.
This stater has an obverse very close to the previous coin, but the reverse with the boar gives way to that with the lyre, typical of class V. It is difficult to refine the classification of the reverse, the presence of a possible cross being risky because it is off-flan. The style of the obverse is very close to DT. S 2333 A which also has a reverse with the lyre, but with a vexillum in the form of two triangles opposed by their summit
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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