bga_886280 - LEXOVII (Area of Lisieux) Bronze LIXOYIO/MACVPE au personnage de face
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Price : 300.00 €
Type : Bronze LIXOYIO/MACVPE au personnage de face
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 2,91 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan centré. Des faiblesses mais type bien reconnaissable. Patine verte
Obverse
Obverse legend : LIXOYIO//.
Obverse description : Buste de face avec les cheveux divisés en deux grosses mèches de part et d’autre du visage, un torque autour du cou.
Obverse legend : [ESQD]
Reverse
Reverse legend : MACVPE.
Reverse description : Cavalier galopant à droite, la tête du cavalier ressemble au buste du droit ; sous le cheval, petit personnage, couché.
Historical background
LEXOVII (Area of Lisieux)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Lexovians, a small Celtic people, had Noviomagus (Lisieux) as their main oppidum. Their territory was bounded by the hills of the Perche and the sea. According to Strabo, the Lexovians would have been excellent traders, exchanging tin from Brittany and lead from Cornwall for wine and oil from Italy. They are cited several times by Caesar in his Commentaries. The Lexovian contingent for the relief army sent to Alesia was included in the twenty thousand men counted for all the peoples along the ocean and "who call themselves Armoricans". However, the Lexovians do not belong to the Armorican group. Caesar (BG. III, 9, 11, 17, 29). Kruta: 351, 366.
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