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bga_241281 - GALLIA - BITURIGES CUBI (Area of Bourges) Bronze VANDIINOS à l’aigle

GALLIA - BITURIGES CUBI (Area of Bourges) Bronze VANDIINOS à l’aigle XF/AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 290.00 €
Type : Bronze VANDIINOS à l’aigle
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16,50 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,75 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très beau bronze, de frappe un peu molle au droit, mais avec un très beau revers asse finement détaillé. Patine vert foncé, un peu hétérogène
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste féminin à gauche, les cheveux longs ; le cou orné d'un torque, grènetis.

Reverse


Reverse legend : VANDIINOS.
Reverse description : Aigle de face, les ailes déployées, accosté de trois annelets centrés et d’un pentagramme.

Commentary


Si la légende VANDIINOS est presque invisible, en bord de flan au revers, tout le reste de la monnaie est parfaitement bien venu.

Historical background


GALLIA - BITURIGES CUBI (Area of Bourges)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Bituriges Cubes were one of the most powerful peoples of the Celtic. Their territory extended over part of Bourbonnais, Touraine and Berry, the current departments of Cher, Indre and part of Allier. Their capital was the oppidum of Avaricum (Bourges). The Loire separated them from the Aedui and the Carnutes. They also had for neighbors the Pictons, the Lémovices and the Arvernes. According to the account of Livy, the king of Bituriges, Ambigat would have reigned over the whole of unified Gaul in the 6th century BC.. -VS. and would have sent his two nephews, Bellovèse and Sigovèse, one to Italy, the other to the East, to found the Gallic Empire which, a century later, extended over Great Britain, central Europe (except Switzerland), northern Italy and most of the Danube. Before the Gallic Wars, the Bituriges would have been the clients of the Aedui and a contingent of Boii would have been installed on their territory.. Their main wealth came from animal husbandry and iron mining which had brought them wealth and prosperity.. In 52 BC. -VS. , they supported Vercingetorix. They were defeated at Genabum (Orleans) by Caesar. Vercingetorix encouraged them to practice the scorched earth technique. They thus destroyed more than twenty oppida, but refused the same fate to their capital, Avaricum (Bourges). Caesar came to besiege the oppidum, defended by thirty thousand Bituriges and ten thousand allies. The city was taken and burned, only eight hundred soldiers were able to escape, while the garrison and the population were massacred.. Caesar found there abundant reserves which enabled him to spend the winter and prepare the campaign for the following spring.. Nevertheless, the Bituriges would still have provided a contingent of twelve thousand men to the relief army of the Gallic coalition, during the siege of Alésia. At the beginning of 51 BC. -VS. , Caesar led a new campaign among the Bituriges who submitted very quickly. A few weeks later, they intervened with Caesar to fight against the Carnutes. Caesar (BG. I, 18; VII, 5, 8, 9, 11-13, 15, 21, 29, 75, 90, VIII, 2, 3, 4, 11). Strabo (G. IV, 2). Livy (HR. V, 34, 35). Pliny (HN. , IV. 109). Ptolemy (G. II, 7). Kruta: 68-70, 145, 186-187, 212-213, 240, 334, 344, 360.

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