Live auction - bga_854893 - GALLIA - BAÏOCASSES (Area of Bayeux) Statère d’électrum à la lyre
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Live starting : Type : Statère d’électrum à la lyre
Date: IIe - Ier siècles AC.
Mint name / Town : Bayeux (14)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 20 mm
Weight : 5,13 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan bien centré. Revers particulièrement complet. Droit lisse. 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
Coin de droit usé.
Worn obverse die
Worn obverse die
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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