bga_350822 - MIDDLE LOIRE Potin à la tête casquée, revers aux croissants et aux globules
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Price : 1 450.00 €
Type : Potin à la tête casquée, revers aux croissants et aux globules
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,24 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Superbe potin avec un magnifique avers inhabituel et un revers un peu plus mou. Belle patine grise sur un métal sain
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une très ancienne collection allemande de monnaies gauloises
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée à droite avec l'œil en creux, le ne marqué et le menton fort.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Restes d'un quadrupède géométrique, entre deux globules et deux croissants.
Commentary
Si le revers de cet exemplaire n’est pas sans rappeler les potins de la Loire, avec l’animal stylisé accosté de croissants et parfois de triskèle, ce potin est d’un type de droit très inhabituel, sans équivalent publié !.
If the reverse of this example is reminiscent of the Loire potin, with the stylized animal flanked by crescents and sometimes triskelions, this potin is of a very unusual type of right, with no published equivalent!
If the reverse of this example is reminiscent of the Loire potin, with the stylized animal flanked by crescents and sometimes triskelions, this potin is of a very unusual type of right, with no published equivalent!
Historical background
MIDDLE LOIRE
(1st century BC)
The "so-called" degenerate crescent or crescent and triskele potin are imitations, perhaps copied from the passing bull potin (LT. 5284), formerly attributed to the Mandubians, is today reclassified as "central de Gaul". This potin is itself copied from the bronzes of Marseilles with the bull. The great diversity that can exist between different potin does not facilitate a recurring attribution. A solution could come to us from across the Channel once again. One of the examples in the Oxford museum from the collection of D. Allen is supposed to come from the camp of Amboise (Indre-et-Loire), in the Turons country. This type is reputed to come from the Chartres treasure (Blanchet, ABT. fig. 116). The maximalist "Middle Loire" attribution is valid, but not definitive.
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