v25_0700 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Statère dit “à la tente”
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 1 000.00 €
Realised price : 770.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 992.00 €
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 1 000.00 €
Realised price : 770.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 992.00 €
Type : Statère dit “à la tente”
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 6,62 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité, frappé sur un flan large. Faiblesses de frappe devant le visage au droit et devant le visage au revers. Patine d'ancienne collection et une inscription "27" à l'encre de chine devant le cheval
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, la chevelure en trois grosses mèches ; cordons perlés enroulés autour .
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale bridé, galopant à droite ; au-dessus, restes de la tête au bout d’un cordon perlé ; entre les jambes, la façade d’un temple.
Commentary
Plutôt qu'en billon, cette monnaie semble être en bas électrum. Les monnaies osismes ont fait l'objet d'une étude poussée par J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu, avec le trésor de Guingamp, publié en 1956 dans la Revue Belge de Numismatique.
Rather than billon, this coin appears to be made of low electrum. Osism coins were the subject of an in-depth study by J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu, with the Guingamp treasure, published in 1956 in the Revue Belge de Numismatique
Rather than billon, this coin appears to be made of low electrum. Osism coins were the subject of an in-depth study by J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu, with the Guingamp treasure, published in 1956 in the Revue Belge de Numismatique
Historical background
GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère)
(2nd - 1st centuries BC)
The Osismes were an Armorican people, settled in the current department of Finistère, at the northwestern end of Gaul and the Armorican coasts. They had as chief town Vorgium, today Carhaix. Their neighbors were the Veneti and the Coriosolites. Their name would mean "the furthest away" or "the people at the end of the world". They were subjugated by Caesar's army in 57 along with the other Armorican peoples. But from 56, they joined the coalition led by the Venetians. They will participate in the contingent of twenty-five thousand men provided in 52 BC to the army of the Gallic coalition by the Armorican peoples. Caesar (BG. II, 34, III, 9, VII, 75, 1). Pliny (HN IV, 107). Ptolemy (II, 8). Kruta, page 766.
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