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Live auction - bga_411505 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Statère dit “à la tente”, var. 5

GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Statère dit “à la tente”, var. 5 AU
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Estimate : 2 200 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 13 June 2017 15:14:11
Type : Statère dit “à la tente”, var. 5
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 6,97 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et relativement régulier avec quelques éclatements de frappe. Droit complet et bien centré avec un revers légèrement altéré par une faiblesse de frappe périphérique entre 8 et 2 heures. Fine patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une vieille collection dispersée par J. Vinchon

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.

Commentary


Avec ce style précis, ce statère correspond à la variante 5 du classement de P. Abollivier, dit de Perros-Guirec. Cet exemplaire est d’un poids particulièrement lourd ; avec ses 6,97 grammes, il se rapproche du BN 6516 qui est l’exemplaire le plus lourd répertorié (7,03 g).

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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