bga_997363 - GALLIA - SANTONES / MID-WESTERN, Unspecified Drachme à la lyre
1 760.00 €(Approx. 2059.20$ | 1531.20£)
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Type : Drachme à la lyre
Date: IIe - Ier siècles avant J.-C.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,56 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Coments on the condition:
Flan un peu court et légèrement décentré. De petites faiblesses sont à noter. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite (?), la chevelure élaborée faite de divers motifs ainsi qu’un lyre ; décor en demis arcs de cercle derrière la tête.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval stylisé à gauche ; un triangle entre les jambes et une hampe au-dessus ; de nombreux petits traits dans le champs.
Commentary
Monnaie particulièrement intéressante, à rapprocher des drachmes à la couronne en chevrons. Les deux côtés présentent des types particulièrement riches, avec de nombreux motifs constituant des décors élaborés.
Particularly interesting coin, to be compared with the drachmas with the chevron crown. Both sides present particularly rich types, with numerous motifs constituting elaborate decorations
Particularly interesting coin, to be compared with the drachmas with the chevron crown. Both sides present particularly rich types, with numerous motifs constituting elaborate decorations
Historical background
GALLIA - SANTONES / MID-WESTERN, Unspecified
(1st century BC)
A large part of the coinage of the Center-West still poses delicate problems of restitution today. To the fine, sometimes very detailed attributions of the two previous centuries (19th and 20th centuries), the historians of Gaul, with a view to globalization, prefer to refer to large geographical groups. Isn't the most important thing today that we are in possession of the archaeological object itself? Nevertheless if, in the future, the attitude of the discoverers of coins, fortuitous discoveries or not, official or not, allied to the benevolence of our sometimes suspicious archaeologists could allow us, thanks to a close collaboration (collaborare, to work together in Latin) and extent of their respective competences, to have a better knowledge of the places of discoveries, we could see gradually disappearing all these attributions "uncertain this, uncertain that" for the greatest pleasure of each and the Knowledge of all.
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