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Live auction - bga_412248 - CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Statère de billon de transition I-III

CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d Armor) Statère de billon de transition I-III AU/VF
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Estimate : 400 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 31 January 2017 15:17:31
Type : Statère de billon de transition I-III
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Brieuc (22)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,52 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Droit de qualité, avec un très beau portrait. Revers frappé avec un coin usé mais frappe parfaitement bien centrée. Patine irisée au droit mais un peu plus terne au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du trésor de Trébry, avec le n° 12 écrit à l’encre de Chine au droit et 17 au revers

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 rond.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval stylisé, à tête aviforme, galopant à droite ; au-dessus, restes de la tête de l'aurige et bras tendu ; entre les jambes, un sanglier à droite.

Commentary


Ce statère de transition associe un droit avec l’œil rond de face et un rinceau qui s’échappe de la bouche, qui se rencontre pour la classe III, mais avec un nez caractéristique de la classe II. Le revers se rencontre pour les classes I et III.
Même coin de droit (D12) que les exemplaires n° 937 et 938 du musée de Rennes, provenant aussi du trésor de Trébry.
Le statère n° 251 de TRESOR II, issu du même coin D12 a été vendu 421€.

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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