bga_1007463 - GALLIA - LEMOVICES (Area of Limoges) Drachme de billon au carnyx, tête à gauche
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Type : Drachme de billon au carnyx, tête à gauche
Date: c. 80-60 AC.
Mint name / Town : Limoges (87)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 2,00 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, un peu court et centré. Usure régulière. Patine grise hétérogène
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, les cheveux divisés en grosses mèches bouclées.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à gauche ; au-dessus, un carnyx ; un buste humain entre les jambes, tenant la base du carnyx.
Commentary
Les monnaies de cette série au carnyx apparaissent très rarement sur le marché, toutes variantes confondues.
La chevelure du droit est très sophistiquée et le revers présente une petite tête coupée avec un casque à côtes.
Coins from this carnyx series appear very rarely on the market, all variants combined. The hair on the obverse is very sophisticated and the reverse features a small severed head with a ribbed helmet.
La chevelure du droit est très sophistiquée et le revers présente une petite tête coupée avec un casque à côtes.
Coins from this carnyx series appear very rarely on the market, all variants combined. The hair on the obverse is very sophisticated and the reverse features a small severed head with a ribbed helmet.
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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