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v43_1149 - GALLIA - CARNUTES (Beauce area) Obole au char et à la lyre

GALLIA - CARNUTES (Beauce area) Obole au char et à la lyre AU/XF
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 320.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Obole au char et à la lyre
Date: IIe - Ier siècles avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Chartres (28)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13,00 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 0,89 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et ovale, avec un très beau droit de frappe vigoureuse, avec un visage complet. Revers parfaitement identifiable mais de frappe un peu molle ou issu d’un coin un peu plus usé, avec l’aurige en bord de flan. Fine patine grise
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Apollon à droite, la joue assez forte et la chevelure en de nombreuses petites mèches.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Char à droite, un aurige au-dessus de la rouelle figurant le char, tenant un fouet d’une main et les rênes de l’autre ; une lyre renversée entre les jambes du cheval.

Commentary


Les très rares exemplaires connus de nous sont tous en collections privées et proviendraient des confins de la Touraine et du Berry. Ces monnaies seraient issues d’une seule paire de coin ; le coin de droit étant reconnaissable avec les proportions de la tête et cette coiffure caractéristique et le coin de revers présentant toujours la cassure au niveau de la lyre. Mêmes coins de droit et de revers que le “denier au cheval” n° 363 de MONNAIES II (la lyre mal venue avec la cassure avait été interprétée comme un petit personnage...).

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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