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bga_335578 - EDUENS, ÆDUI (BIBRACTE, Area of the Mont-Beuvray) Quart de statère en électrum à la lyre, type de Chenôves

EDUENS, ÆDUI (BIBRACTE, Area of the Mont-Beuvray) Quart de statère en électrum à la lyre, type de Chenôves AU/XF
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Price : 550.00 €
Type : Quart de statère en électrum à la lyre, type de Chenôves
Date: c. 70-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Autun (71)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,75 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Belle petite monnaie, sur un flan un peu court et épais, en or très pâle. Droit et revers complets, avec une belle tête assez bien venue mais un revers un peu plus confus avec de petits défauts de métal assez superficiels. Fine patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
C’est le n° 434 de MONNAIES 57

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine laurée à droite, la chevelure stylisée ; grènetis.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval galopant à droite ; au-dessus du cheval, l'aurige ; lyre sous le cheval.

Commentary


Ces monnaies du type de Chenôves se divisent en trois types ; à la lyre (classe I), à la rouelle (classe II) ou au triskèle (classe III).
Cet exemplaire présente un revers classique pour cette série mais un avers d’un style très inhabituel, traité en très haut relief ! Au revers l’aurige aviforme est très net en bord de flan. Alors que certaines monnaies sont plus jaunes ou orangées, cet exemplaire est en or presque blanc.

Historical background


EDUENS, ÆDUI (BIBRACTE, Area of the Mont-Beuvray)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Aedui (Aedui), which could be translated as the "Ardent", were certainly, after the Arverni, the most important people of Gaul. Their territory extended between Seine, Loire and Saône on the current departments of Saône-et-Loire, Nièvre, part of Côte-d'Or and Allier. They occupied a strategic position on the dividing line between the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the English Channel.. The Aedui, perpetual rivals of the Arverni, had replaced them after the end of the Arverni Empire and the defeat of 121 BC.. -VS. Loyal allies of the Romans from the start of the Second Punic War, when Hannibal passed through Gaul in 218 BC. -VS. , it is thanks to their alliance that Domitius Ahenobarbus could have justified his intervention against the Allobroges in 121 BC. -VS. They were no strangers to the Roman intervention in Gaul and the outbreak of the War. In 58 BC. -VS. , the Aedui appealed to Caesar to protect them against the Suevian invasion of Ariovistus which threatened their territory and then again to contain the Helvetian thrust. If the vergobret Liscus, principal magistrate of the Aedui, remained faithful to the Roman alliance, part of the Aedui oligarchy joined the Gallic camp with Dumnorix and Divitiacos. The Aedui remained faithful to the Roman alliance during the War, although Caesar estimated the Aedui who participated in the Gallic coalition at thirty-five thousand men.. Caesar did not hold it against them and they received citizenship directly because they were considered "consanguineous brothers of the Romans". Their oppidum was Bibracte (Mont-Beuvray), but they abandoned it in 15 BC.. -VS. to go and found Augustodunum (Autun). Caesar (BG. I, 10, 33; VII, 32, 33); Strabo (G. IV, 3). Kruta: 21, 46, 69-70, 187, 251, 348-349, 351, 359, 362, 364-365.

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