Live auction - bga_498275 - EDUENS, ÆDUI (BIBRACTE, Area of the Mont-Beuvray) Statère du type du quart de Beaune
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| Estimate : | 6 500 € |
| Price : | 3 800 € |
| Maximum bid : | 3 800 € |
| End of the sale : | 11 September 2018 15:11:28 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Statère du type du quart de Beaune
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Autun (71)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 7,20 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Rare statère frappé sur un flan large et ovale, avec les types de droit et de revers complets, mais de frappe molle. Droit avec un beau visage sur un flan un tout petit peu court, avec des micro rayures sur la joue. Le revers est idéalement centré mais de frappe faible
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 43, n° 1148 et de la collection du Docteur J.-M. F
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite ornée d'une couronne de lauriers partant du front et rejoignant la nuque.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Bige à droite conduit par un aurige stylisé en bord de flan, un triskèle sous les chevaux.
Commentary
Lors de la vente du n° 882 de MONNAIES 32 (pièce de couverture), ce très rare type de statère était sous-documenté, connu qu'à quelques unités. Cet exemplaire, bien que de frappe molle, est exceptionnellement complet.
La proximité du revers avec un type plus traditionnel est sans doute la raison pour laquelle il a été amalgamé à une série bien connue bien qu'il s'en distingue tant au droit qu'au revers ! Il s'agit du statère correspondant au quart connu sous l'appellation du type de Beaune attribué aux Éduens.
Le récent ouvrage “ Le trésor de Tayac” reprend cette variété particulière sous la série F6 des statères au triskèle. Cinq statères y sont représentés ; un qui pourrait provenir de Tayac, celui de la vente Mioche - coll. de Saulcy (BN. 3693), les deux de Zurich et celui de la collection Luneau dispersée en 1923 par Platt. Avec celui de MONNAIES 32 et celui-ci, cette publication porte à sept le nombre d’exemplaires publiés (auxquels il faut rajouter un exemplaire vendu par Leu et un autre en collection privée), soit neuf exemplaires au total !.
At the time of the sale of No. 882 of MONNAIES 32 (cover piece), this very rare type of stater was under-documented, known in only a few units. This example, although soft-struck, is exceptionally complete. The proximity of the reverse to a more traditional type is undoubtedly the reason why it was amalgamated with a well-known series although it differs from it both on the obverse and the reverse! This is the stater corresponding to the quarter known as the Beaune type attributed to the Aedui. The recent work “Le trésor de Tayac” includes this particular variety under the series F6 of triskelion staters. Five staters are represented there; one which could come from Tayac, the one from the Mioche sale - Saulcy collection (BN. 3693), the two from Zurich and the one from the Luneau collection dispersed in 1923 by Platt. With that of MONNAIES 32 and this one, this publication brings to seven the number of examples published (to which must be added one example sold by Leu and another in a private collection), or nine examples in total!
La proximité du revers avec un type plus traditionnel est sans doute la raison pour laquelle il a été amalgamé à une série bien connue bien qu'il s'en distingue tant au droit qu'au revers ! Il s'agit du statère correspondant au quart connu sous l'appellation du type de Beaune attribué aux Éduens.
Le récent ouvrage “ Le trésor de Tayac” reprend cette variété particulière sous la série F6 des statères au triskèle. Cinq statères y sont représentés ; un qui pourrait provenir de Tayac, celui de la vente Mioche - coll. de Saulcy (BN. 3693), les deux de Zurich et celui de la collection Luneau dispersée en 1923 par Platt. Avec celui de MONNAIES 32 et celui-ci, cette publication porte à sept le nombre d’exemplaires publiés (auxquels il faut rajouter un exemplaire vendu par Leu et un autre en collection privée), soit neuf exemplaires au total !.
At the time of the sale of No. 882 of MONNAIES 32 (cover piece), this very rare type of stater was under-documented, known in only a few units. This example, although soft-struck, is exceptionally complete. The proximity of the reverse to a more traditional type is undoubtedly the reason why it was amalgamated with a well-known series although it differs from it both on the obverse and the reverse! This is the stater corresponding to the quarter known as the Beaune type attributed to the Aedui. The recent work “Le trésor de Tayac” includes this particular variety under the series F6 of triskelion staters. Five staters are represented there; one which could come from Tayac, the one from the Mioche sale - Saulcy collection (BN. 3693), the two from Zurich and the one from the Luneau collection dispersed in 1923 by Platt. With that of MONNAIES 32 and this one, this publication brings to seven the number of examples published (to which must be added one example sold by Leu and another in a private collection), or nine examples in total!
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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