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bga_198445 - GALLIA BELGICA - SUESSIONES (Area of Soissons) Demi potin aux animaux affrontés, classe I

GALLIA BELGICA - SUESSIONES (Area of Soissons) Demi potin aux animaux affrontés, classe I XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 45.00 €
Type : Demi potin aux animaux affrontés, classe I
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,68 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Cassure régulière avec un droit présentant la légende complète. Patine sombre et poreuse avec des restes de terre en superficie
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Deux animaux affrontés (chèvres ou boucs) ; la légende entre deux, disposée verticalement. Grènetis et bourrelet périphériques.
Obverse legend : AG°HD

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Loup et sanglier dressés face à face autour d'un annelet centré, grènetis et bourrelet périphériques.

Commentary


La classe I a la particularité d'être épigraphe. Les caractères de la légende sont retournés sur l'axe vertical (effet de miroir). Tous les potins de ce type que nous avons proposés à la vente pesaient au moins 5 grammes et jamais plus de 6.

De cassure ancienne et très régulière à la moitié du flan, ce potin aurait pu être coupé pour faire un demi potin. Ce procédé est systématique pour les As de Nîmes, mais les potins cassés en deux ou plus sont bien attesté, afin d’obtenir des divisionnaires ou à des fins de démonétisation (?).
Class I has the particularity of being epigraphic. The characters of the legend are returned on the vertical axis (mirror effect). All the potins of this type that we offered for sale weighed at least 5 grams and never more than 6. With an old and very regular break at the half of the flan, this potin could have been cut to make a half potin. This process is systematic for the As de Nîmes, but the potins broken in two or more are well attested, in order to obtain divisionaries or for demonetization purposes (?)

Historical background


GALLIA BELGICA - SUESSIONES (Area of Soissons)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Suessions were an important people of the Belgians, confined on the Aisne in the territory of the province of Soissonnais. They had for neighbor the Remi, the Lingones, the Senones, the Parisii, the Bellovaci and the Ambiens.. According to Caesar, the two peoples Remes and Suessions, before the Gallic Wars, had the same laws and the same leaders. They had for customers the Meldes, the Silvanectes and the Viromanduens. Diviciacos, one of their kings, would have reigned as far as Brittany. Galba, his successor, commanded the coalition of rebel Belgians in 57 BC. -VS. with a contingent of fifty thousand men. The Suessions and their Bellovaci allies were defeated. Galba had to deliver his two sons as hostages to the Romans. They provided a contingent of five thousand men for the relief army in 52 BC. -VS. They were placed under the authority of the Remes after this date. In 51 BC. -VS. , the members of the Belgian coalition were to first attack the Suessions. Ruled by Corréos and Commios, the Belgic peoples were finally crushed by the Romans. Their main oppidum was Noviodunum (Soissons). Caesar (BG. II, 3, 4, 12, 13; VI, 35; VII, 75; VIII, 6). Kruta: 69.

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