Live auction - bga_1091938 - GALLIA - BAÏOCASSES (Area of Bayeux) Statère d’électrum à la lyre inversée
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Live starting : Type : Statère d’électrum à la lyre inversée
Date: IIe - Ier siècles AC.
Mint name / Town : Bayeux (14)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 6,95 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Belle monnaie sur flan centré, à la frappe un peu molle au droit. Patine de collection
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à droite, les cheveux en grosses mèches ; une lyre et un cordon perlé dans la chevelure.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval galopant à droite ; une lyre à droite, entre les jambes du cheval ; aurige au-dessus du dos ; vexillum devant la tête.
Commentary
Type non répertorié avec une lyre inversée au droit !.
Unlisted type with an inverted lyre on the right!
Unlisted type with an inverted lyre on the right!
Historical background
GALLIA - BAÏOCASSES (Area of Bayeux)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Baïocasses or Bodiocasses are not mentioned in Caesar's Gallic Wars. It is Pliny the Elder who speaks of it first. The Baiocasses occupied part of present-day Normandy, the Bessin. Their neighbors were the Unelles, the Viducasses and the Véliocasses. Their main oppidum was Augustodurum (Bayeux). Pliny (HN. IV, 107). Ptolemy (G. II, 8).
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