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E-auction 18-4794 - bga_131651 - GALLIA BELGICA - LEUCI (Area of Toul) Potin au sanglier et au bucrane

GALLIA BELGICA - LEUCI (Area of Toul) Potin au sanglier et au bucrane VF
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Estimate : 20 €
Price : 11 €
Maximum bid : 15 €
End of the sale : 19 August 2013 15:04:30
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Potin au sanglier et au bucrane
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 19,33 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,85 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire mal conservé, mais complètement identifiable. Patine grise avec des concrétion terreuses
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, l'œil bien marqué, les cheveux en trois mèches parallèles dont l'une retombe devant l'œil.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Sanglier à gauche, la queue marquée par un petit annelet ; entre les pattes, un bucrane.

Commentary


Ce rare potin n'est connu qu'à quelques exemplaires. S. Scheers dans son inventaire ne reprenait que les trois exemplaires conservés à la BN et illustrait dans son Traité le même exemplaire que celui qui fut gravé par Dardel au XIXe siècle pour illustrer le LA TOUR.

Historical background


GALLIA BELGICA - LEUCI (Area of Toul)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Leuques are mentioned only once in the Gallic Wars. Their neighbors were the Médiomatriques, the Lingons and the Séquanes. The Leuques as well as the Séquanes and the Lingones provided Caesar with wheat when the Roman army stopped at Vesontio (Besançon) to refuel before facing the Germans of Ariovistus (58 BC). Caesar (BG. I, 40).

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