bga_458704 - EDUENS, ÆDUI (BIBRACTE, Area of the Mont-Beuvray) Denier à la croisette et à la rouelle
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 220.00 €
Type : Denier à la croisette et à la rouelle
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Autun (71)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 1,92 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et ovale, avec un droit un peu mou mais un revers de frappe particulièrement vigoureuse
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée à gauche, grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval bridé et sanglé galopant à gauche ; au-dessus, une croisette ; sous le cheval, une rouelle.
Commentary
Cet exemplaire est intéressant ; il est issu du même coin de droit que le n° 1542 de MONNAIES 34_1542 qui présentait ce même motif incus devant le visage ; le défaut serait donc dans le coin !
Cette très rare variante figure dans le LA TOUR mais semble avoir été négligée par les auteurs du Nouvel Atlas et manque aussi à leur tome de supplément. Pourtant le tableau de concordance du Tome III avec l’Atlas des monnaies gauloises d’H. de LA TOUR indique la série 881 “quinaires anépigraphes à la tête casquée (Aedui)”, pour la monnaie LT 5099 !
Ce type est excessivement rare alors même que les auteurs du Moneta IV auraient répertorié une vingtaine d'exemplaires, de provenances variées ?
Cet exemplaire a la particularité d’être surfrappé au droit sur un incus de revers ; le corps du cheval se distingue à peine, confondu avec le profil, tandis qu'une partie de la roue est bien nette, donnant l’impression d’une épigraphie devant la bouche.
This example is interesting; it comes from the same obverse die as No. 1542 of MONNAIES 34_1542 which presented this same incus motif in front of the face; the defect would therefore be in the die! This very rare variant appears in the LA TOUR but seems to have been neglected by the authors of the New Atlas and is also missing from their supplementary volume. However, the concordance table of Volume III with the Atlas of Gallic Coins by H. de LA TOUR indicates series 881 “anépigraphes quinarii with a helmeted head (Aedui)”, for the coin LT 5099! This type is extremely rare even though the authors of Moneta IV would have listed around twenty examples, from various sources? This example has the particularity of being overstruck on the obverse on an incus of the reverse; the body of the horse is barely distinguishable, merged with the profile, while part of the wheel is very clear, giving the impression of an epigraphy in front of the mouth
Cette très rare variante figure dans le LA TOUR mais semble avoir été négligée par les auteurs du Nouvel Atlas et manque aussi à leur tome de supplément. Pourtant le tableau de concordance du Tome III avec l’Atlas des monnaies gauloises d’H. de LA TOUR indique la série 881 “quinaires anépigraphes à la tête casquée (Aedui)”, pour la monnaie LT 5099 !
Ce type est excessivement rare alors même que les auteurs du Moneta IV auraient répertorié une vingtaine d'exemplaires, de provenances variées ?
Cet exemplaire a la particularité d’être surfrappé au droit sur un incus de revers ; le corps du cheval se distingue à peine, confondu avec le profil, tandis qu'une partie de la roue est bien nette, donnant l’impression d’une épigraphie devant la bouche.
This example is interesting; it comes from the same obverse die as No. 1542 of MONNAIES 34_1542 which presented this same incus motif in front of the face; the defect would therefore be in the die! This very rare variant appears in the LA TOUR but seems to have been neglected by the authors of the New Atlas and is also missing from their supplementary volume. However, the concordance table of Volume III with the Atlas of Gallic Coins by H. de LA TOUR indicates series 881 “anépigraphes quinarii with a helmeted head (Aedui)”, for the coin LT 5099! This type is extremely rare even though the authors of Moneta IV would have listed around twenty examples, from various sources? This example has the particularity of being overstruck on the obverse on an incus of the reverse; the body of the horse is barely distinguishable, merged with the profile, while part of the wheel is very clear, giving the impression of an epigraphy in front of the mouth
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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