bga_624288 - GALLIA - LEMOVICES (Area of Limoges) Fraction à la tête coupée et au fleuron
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Price : 600.00 €
Type : Fraction à la tête coupée et au fleuron
Date: c. 80-60 AC.
Mint name / Town : Limoges (87)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 0,93 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Remarquable exemplaire avec un très beau revers et un droit de style très inhabituel
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à droite, les cheveux divisés en grosses mèches.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à tête d’oiseau à droite ; au-dessus, tête coupée très stylisée et au-dessous, fleuron.
Commentary
Monnaie extraordinaire dans la représentation avec une tête stylisée au droit et un revers totalement inédit avec un cheval présentant une tête d’oiseau (?), et un fleuron se rapprochant fortement des types lémovices...
Extraordinary coin in the representation with a stylized head on the obverse and a completely new reverse with a horse presenting a bird's head (?), and a fleuron closely resembling the Lemovice types.
Extraordinary coin in the representation with a stylized head on the obverse and a completely new reverse with a horse presenting a bird's head (?), and a fleuron closely resembling the Lemovice types.
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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