bga_472576 - EDUENS, ÆDUI (BIBRACTE, Area of the Mont-Beuvray) Quart de statère au bige et à la lyre
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Price : 2 800.00 €
Type : Quart de statère au bige et à la lyre
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Autun (71)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 11 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 1,95 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Superbe petite monnaie avec des types complets et de frappe vigoureuse. Malheureusement, trois petits coups assez profonds sont à signaler au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Raymond D. (1948-2017), il a été acquis auprès C. N. B. en novembre 1992 (5.000 fr).
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, la chevelure en grosse mèches enroulées ; un globule sur le front.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Bige à gauche, un épi sous les chevaux, conduit par un aurige en bord de flan, avec la roue du char visible.
Commentary
L’attribution de ce type de quart semble osciller plus ou moins arbitrairement entre les Arvernes et les Éduens. Castelin classe celui du musée de Zurich dans les Séries moyennes des imitations de Philippe II. Les exemplaires DT. 3381-3382 constituent le Type II “à la lyre et à l’épis” (?) alors qu’aucune de ces monnaie n’a d’épis... Ces deux quarts sont d’un type comparables au DT. 3379A. Le n° 59 du musée de Caen est très proche, mais issu d’un coin de droit usé, comme le DT. 3381 (= BN. 4838 illustré dans le La Tour). Il est surprenant que ce type ne soit pas repris dans l'article de D. Allen sur les monnaies d’or imitées de Philippe dans la Revue Suisse de Numismatique de 1974.
Un exemplaire de même type que notre quart, mais un peu moins joli, a été vendu 1.800€ dans la vente ALDE du 14 juin 2010, Collection d’un Amateur Bourguignon, n° 1.
The attribution of this type of quarter seems to oscillate more or less arbitrarily between the Arverni and the Aedui. Castelin classifies the one in the Zurich museum in the Middle Series of imitations of Philip II. The examples DT. 3381-3382 constitute Type II “with lyre and ear of corn” (?) while none of these coins have ears of corn... These two quarters are of a type comparable to DT. 3379A. No. 59 in the Caen museum is very similar, but comes from a worn obverse die, like DT. 3381 (= BN. 4838 illustrated in La Tour). It is surprising that this type is not included in D. Allen's article on the imitated gold coins of Philippe in the Revue Suisse de Numismatique of 1974. A example of the same type as our quarter, but a little less attractive, was sold for €1,800 in the ALDE sale of June 14, 2010, Collection of a Burgundian Amateur, No. 1
Un exemplaire de même type que notre quart, mais un peu moins joli, a été vendu 1.800€ dans la vente ALDE du 14 juin 2010, Collection d’un Amateur Bourguignon, n° 1.
The attribution of this type of quarter seems to oscillate more or less arbitrarily between the Arverni and the Aedui. Castelin classifies the one in the Zurich museum in the Middle Series of imitations of Philip II. The examples DT. 3381-3382 constitute Type II “with lyre and ear of corn” (?) while none of these coins have ears of corn... These two quarters are of a type comparable to DT. 3379A. No. 59 in the Caen museum is very similar, but comes from a worn obverse die, like DT. 3381 (= BN. 4838 illustrated in La Tour). It is surprising that this type is not included in D. Allen's article on the imitated gold coins of Philippe in the Revue Suisse de Numismatique of 1974. A example of the same type as our quarter, but a little less attractive, was sold for €1,800 in the ALDE sale of June 14, 2010, Collection of a Burgundian Amateur, No. 1
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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