bga_292094 - CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Statère de billon, classe VI avers, hybride Vb revers
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Price : 135.00 €
Type : Statère de billon, classe VI avers, hybride Vb revers
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Brieuc (22)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 5,94 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan un peu court mais avec des types bien identifiables. Avers de frappe très molle, mais revers assez vigoureux. Épaisse patine sombre
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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, une lyre penchée ; devant le cheval, une croix.
Commentary
Ce type de statère semble très rare. Le droit est à raprocher des monnaies de la classe VI, mais le revers à la lyre correspond à la classe Vb. Si nous avons déjà proposé des quarts de statères hybrides de ce type, c’est la première fois que nous proposons un tel statère.
Le droit comme le revers ont tous deux été biffés par un coupe de burin.
This type of stater seems very rare. The right is comparable to coins of class VI, but the reverse with the lyre corresponds to class Vb. Although we have already offered quarter hybrid staters of this type, this is the first time that we have offered such a stater. Both the right and the reverse have been crossed out by a chisel cut
Le droit comme le revers ont tous deux été biffés par un coupe de burin.
This type of stater seems very rare. The right is comparable to coins of class VI, but the reverse with the lyre corresponds to class Vb. Although we have already offered quarter hybrid staters of this type, this is the first time that we have offered such a stater. Both the right and the reverse have been crossed out by a chisel cut
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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