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bga_241097 - GALLIA - CARNUTES (Beauce area) Bronze lourd à l’aigle et au croissant

GALLIA - CARNUTES (Beauce area) Bronze lourd à l’aigle et au croissant VF/VF
80.00 €(Approx. 86.40$ | 68.80£)
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Type : Bronze lourd à l’aigle et au croissant
Date: c. 52 AC.
Mint name / Town : Chartres (28)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 7,02 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et épais. Droit et revers complets, mais de frappe un peu molle, surtout au droit. Patine sombre et brillante, avec quelques oxydations orangées
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Ce bronze provient de la collection P. Gendre et est indiqué provenir de Vendeuil-Caply (60)

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée à gauche, grènetis.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Aigle debout de face, les ailes déployées, la tête tournée à gauche ; au-dessus de l’aile gauche, un croissant de lune.

Commentary


Ce type de module est assez peu fréquent pour les bronzes gaulois, mais cette série précise est toujours frappée sur des flans larges et épais, souvent très lourds.
Exemplaire de poids lourd, avec plus de 7 grammes !.

Historical background


GALLIA - CARNUTES (Beauce area)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Carnutes were one of the most important and powerful peoples of independent Gaul. Their territory stretched between the Loire and the Seine over the Orléanais, the Blésois and the Chartrain country as far as Mantes, that is to say the greater part of the current departments of Loiret, Loir-et-Cher and Eure-et-Loir and part of Yvelines. Their economic center was located in Genabum (Orléans), but their main oppidum seems to have been Autricum (Chartres). They would have participated in the legendary Bellovèse expedition to Italy. They formed the geographical center of Gaul and, long before the start of the Gallic Wars, Roman merchants knew the way to Genabum (Orléans), then a major commercial center. The Carnutes were also famous for their forest where the annual meeting of the Druids was held.. At the start of the War, Caesar had wintered with the Carnutes in 57 BC.. -VS. and had imposed on them as king Tasgetios, who was assassinated in 54 BC. -VS. The following year, they submit but at the beginning of 52 BC. -VS. , they are perhaps at the origin of the revolt which will raise the whole of Gaul. It is possible that the conspirators met during a druidic assembly. The Carnutes massacred the Roman settlers and merchants of Genabum (Orleans) under the leadership of Cotuatos and Conconnétodumnos. Caesar came to besiege the city which he took, pillaged and burned, marking the beginning of hostilities. The Carnutes then provided a contingent of twelve thousand men to the relief army in order to clear Alesia. After the fall of Vercingetorix, the following year, the Romans carried out a new campaign of pacification and Caesar punished the assassins of the previous year. Caesar (BG. II. 35; V, 25, 29, 56; VI, 2-4, 13, 44; VII. 2, 3, 11, 75; VIII. 4, 5, 31, 38, 46). Strabo (G. IV, 2, 3); Livy (HR. V, 34). Ptolemy (G. II, 8). Kruta: 68, 187, 334.

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