Live auction - bga_442337 - DANUBIAN CELTS - NORICUM - NORICI Tétradrachme à la tête janiforme

DANUBIAN CELTS - NORICUM - NORICI Tétradrachme à la tête janiforme AU

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Estimate :	3 000 €
Price :	3 100 €
Maximum bid :	3 100 €
End of the sale :	12 September 2017 15:27:38
bidders :	3 bidders

Type : Tétradrachme à la tête janiforme

Date: Ier siècle AC.

Mint name / Town : Serbie

Metal : silver

Diameter : 23,5 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 13,31 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie idéalement centrés sur un flan large, avec des types complets. Fine patine irisée

Catalogue references :

LT.9899 - KO.540 - Pink.233 - Wien.1135 - Z.1286 - Sch/L.1214

Predigree :

Ce tétradrachme provient d’une vieille collection savoyarde

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête de Janus, ou plutôt deux têtes barbues, accolées ; grènetis.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Reverse description : Cavalier casqué, sans bras marchant à droite, un point dans un cercle perlé devant le poitrail du cheval ; les jambes du cheval sont globulées.

Commentary

Le revers est ponctué de globules ; sur le buste du cavalier sans bras, en guise de seins, et aux articulations des jambes du cheval. Cet exemplaire est d’un style assez inhabituel et d’une facture qui feraient penser à une imitation.
L’exemplaire Gemini, Auction VII, Lot 9 a été vendu 1900$..

Historical background

DANUBIAN CELTS - NORICUM - NORICI

(2nd-1st century BC)

According to the work of W. Kruta, we can affirm that the kingdom of Noricum was constituted during the middle of the 2nd century BC, in the territory of present-day Carinthia. Together with the Boii of Pannonia and the Taurisci they certainly formed a powerful kingdom, northeast of Italy and were one of the main Celtic formations on the outskirts of the Alps. This entity experienced its greatest expansion in the 1st century BC and extended to the Danube on the eastern part of the Alps. The conquest undertaken by Augustus was not completed until Tiberius and Drusus.