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Live auction - bga_517353 - GALLIA - LEMOVICES (Area of Limoges) Statère à la grue

GALLIA - LEMOVICES (Area of Limoges) Statère à la grue XF
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Estimate : 2 500 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 05 March 2019 15:23:33
Type : Statère à la grue
Date: c. 100-50 BC.
Mint name / Town : Limoges (87)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,64 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Petit flan ovale avec un très beau droit et un or bien jaune ! Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection du docteur C.M

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, la chevelure en grosses mèches aquitaniques.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à droite, une grue posée sur la croupe et un trèfle entre les jambes.

Commentary


Cette variété correspond à la classe II de la série 1076 “à la grue et au trèfle” du Nouvel Atlas.
Le motif d‘accolade partant de la bouche, devant le visage, est parfois interprété comme le signe de la parole ; on retrouve ce détail sur les statères des Bituriges, mais aussi sous forme des deux dauphins, plus ou moins stylisés, sur la plupart des monnaies d’argent du sud, dites “à la croix”. On notera qu’au revers, le cheval a lui aussi une sorte de volute qui lui sort de la bouche.

Historical background


GALLIA - LEMOVICES (Area of Limoges)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

Celtic people who left their name in Limoges and Limousin. The origin of its name comes once again from lemo or limo which can be translated as elm. Skilled traders, specialized in export, they were perhaps the secret allies of the Romans which could explain Caesar's silence on this people who nevertheless extended their power to the Atlantic coasts. Nevertheless, Caesar estimates at ten thousand men the Lemovice contingent sent against him to clear Alesia in 52 BC. After the conquest, from 50 BC, Caesar would have installed several Roman camps on the Lemovice territory in order to be able to monitor the Arvernian territory. Caesar (BG. VII, 4, 75, 88). Strabo (G. IV, 2, 2).

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