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Live auction - bga_460272 - EMPORION and Celtic imitations (AMPURIAS) Drachme au pégase, Emporia

EMPORION and Celtic imitations (AMPURIAS) Drachme au pégase, Emporia AU
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Estimate : 1 200 €
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Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 06 March 2018 16:19:40
Type : Drachme au pégase, Emporia
Date: c. 240-212 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 4,20 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Drachme homogène avec des types de droit et de revers complets, mais sur un flan irrégulier. Patine grise de collection ancienne, avec de petits défauts de surface
Catalogue references :
LT.manque  - BN.2212  - H.3ème type pl. I, n° 4 - CNH.15  - Z.10
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection P. R. B

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Perséphone à droite, les cheveux tirés en arrière, avec boucles d'oreilles ; deux dauphins devant le visage et un autre derrière le cou ; grènetis.

Reverse

Reverse description : Pégase volant à droite, les ailes déployées, légende entre la queue et les pattes arrières.
Reverse legend : EMPORITWN.

Commentary

Le centrage de cette drachme permet la présence des trois dauphins autour de la tête en bord de flan et la légende EMPORITWN complète, en toutes petites lettres.
Cette drachme servit de prototype à de nombreuses monnaies lourdes du sud-ouest de la Gaule, et même à certaines monnaies d’or !.

Historical background

EMPORION and Celtic imitations (AMPURIAS)

(3rd - 2nd century BC)

The notion of people or tribe seems to disappear with regard to certain attributions when we examine the imitation coins of Emporion or Rhodè. If the prototypes are struck beyond the Pyrenees, the imitations were issued on both sides of the mountain range. The early death of R. Boudet (1958-1995) did not allow him to establish a corpus of these coins. The finds are not limited to Aquitaine, but are spread over the great West between the Loire and the Pyrenees, i.e. nearly a third of the territory of ancient Gaul. The finds of imitations of the drachma of Emporion, which seems to have had a wider distribution, are numerous and spread over the whole of the geographical area: from Charnizay in the Indre-et-Loire or Issoudun in the 'Indre to Ruscino in the Pyrénées-Orientales.

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