bga_335543 - GALLIA - BITURIGES CUBI (Area of Bourges) Statère ABVCATOS à l’aigle
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Price : 675.00 €
Type : Statère ABVCATOS à l’aigle
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Bourges (18)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 5,95 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Rare monnaie, sur un flan en bas or, avec une patine grise et poreuse au droit et plus aurifère au revers. Frappe un peu faible et/ou usure marquée, mais les types sont complets et bien centrés
Predigree :
C’est le n° 320 de MONNAIES 61
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, la chevelure en belles grosse mèches bouclées.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ABVCATOS.
Reverse description : Cheval bondissant à gauche, un aigle les ailes déployées au-dessus de la croupe et trois annelets posés en triangle entre les jambes ; légende entre les jambes antérieures et postérieures.
Commentary
Les statères bituriges de la classe I avec ABVCATOS sont plus rares que ceux de la classe II avec ABVDOS. Si des drachmes et des bronzes sont connus avec la légende ABVDOS, ce n’est pas le cas pour la légende ABVCATOS.
Ces statères sont de deux types selon que la bouche est ornée d’une volute ou pas ; cette exemplaire semble avoir un champ libre devant le visage.
Class I bituriges staters with ABVCATOS are rarer than those of Class II with ABVDOS. While drachms and bronzes are known with the legend ABVDOS, this is not the case for the legend ABVCATOS. These staters are of two types depending on whether the mouth is decorated with a volute or not; this example seems to have a free field in front of the face
Ces statères sont de deux types selon que la bouche est ornée d’une volute ou pas ; cette exemplaire semble avoir un champ libre devant le visage.
Class I bituriges staters with ABVCATOS are rarer than those of Class II with ABVDOS. While drachms and bronzes are known with the legend ABVDOS, this is not the case for the legend ABVCATOS. These staters are of two types depending on whether the mouth is decorated with a volute or not; this example seems to have a free field in front of the face
Historical background
GALLIA - BITURIGES CUBI (Area of Bourges)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The territory of the Bituriges Cubes extended over part of Bourbonnais, Touraine and Berry. Their capital was the oppidum of Avaricum (Bourges). The Loire separated them from the Aedui and the Carnutes. In 52 BC, they supported Vercingetorix who pushed 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 set on fire, only eight hundred soldiers were able to escape, while the garrison and the population were massacred. 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 Alesia. At the beginning of 51 BC, Caesar led a new campaign among the Bituriges who submitted very quickly..
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