bga_210292 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - CADURCI (Area of Cahors) Drachme “à la tête triangulaire”, S. 118
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Price : 95.00 €
Type : Drachme “à la tête triangulaire”, S. 118
Date: IIe-Ier siècle av. J.-C
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Weight : 3,19 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan court irrégulier pour cette drachme avec un droit très mou et confus mais un revers correct. Patine grise avec les reliefs plus brillants
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête triangulaire à gauche ; le nez figuré par un triangle, avec un point cerclé en guise d'œil ; le tout dans un entourage de bâtonnets et arcs de cercles bouletés et liés, rappel des deux dauphins.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Croix bouletée au centre, formée de quatre cantons : un besant aux 1er et 4e cantons, un besant avec un arc de cercle et un petit point au 2e et une grande hache évidée, au manche bouleté au 3e.
Commentary
Cette drachme particulièrement lourde se situe dans les premières émissions de drachmes à la tête triangulaire (caractéristiques avec un poids égal ou supérieur à 3 grammes). Au revers, cet exemplaire a la particularité d'avoir un petit point accostant le croissant du 2e canton.
This particularly heavy drachma is one of the first issues of drachmas with a triangular head (characteristics with a weight equal to or greater than 3 grams). On the reverse, this example has the particularity of having a small dot bordering the crescent of the 2nd canton
This particularly heavy drachma is one of the first issues of drachmas with a triangular head (characteristics with a weight equal to or greater than 3 grams). On the reverse, this example has the particularity of having a small dot bordering the crescent of the 2nd canton
Historical background
GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - CADURCI (Area of Cahors)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Cadurques, after the creation of the province of Narbonnaise were the closest neighbors of the Volques and the Tolosates. Their territory extended over the current department of Lot and that of Tarn-et-Garonne, within the limits of the former province of Quercy with Cahors as its capital.. They were surrounded by the Arvernes and the Gabales, the Rutenes and the Nitiobroges. They made a remarkable entrance during the Gallic Wars and were cited several times by Caesar. They joined the coalition formed by Vercingetorix, and at his request, attacked (with the Rutenes), the Arecomic Volques which remained loyal to the Romans.. The Cadurque leader, Luctérios, succeeds in uniting the Gabales and the Nitiobroges in order to besiege Narbonne. Caesar, warned, cleared the capital of the Provincia. The Cadurques took part in the contingent of 35. 000 men from the Arvernes to rescue Alesia, besieged. After the defeat and surrender of Vercingetorix, Luctérios took part, again the following year in 51 BC. -VS. , in defense of the oppidum of Uxellodunum (Puy d'Issolu in the Lot). Sources: Caesar (BG. VII, 4, 64 and 75; VIII, 32 and 34); Strabo (G. IV, 2, 2).
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