bga_1120338 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Statère dit “à la tente”, var. 5
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Type : Statère dit “à la tente”, var. 5
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,26 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie agréable, sur flan large et irrégulier, bien centré. Des faiblesses et une fine usure régulière. Patine aux légers reflets dorés
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Predigree :
Cette monnaie est la n°11 du trésor de Guingamp, et provient de l’ancienne collection du Docteur Colbert de Beaulieu
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, la chevelure en grosses mèches, entourée de cordons perlés enroulés autour et terminés par de petites têtes.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale bridé, galopant à droite ; au-dessus, restes de la tête au bout d’un double cordon perlé ; entre les jambes, la façade d’un temple.
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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