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E-auction 92-47235 - bga_305090 - MASSALIA - MARSEILLE Petit bronze au taureau et au bucrane

MASSALIA - MARSEILLE Petit bronze au taureau et au bucrane VF/VF
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Estimate : 100 €
Price : 41 €
Maximum bid : 68 €
End of the sale : 19 January 2015 15:10:30
bidders : 5 bidders
Type : Petit bronze au taureau et au bucrane
Date: c. 130-121 AC.
Mint name / Town : Marseille (13)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 11,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 0,90 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un flan particulièrement petit et léger ! Les types sont bien centrés mais de frappe un peu molle. Épaisse patine vert foncé. Monnaie très peu photogénique, bien plus agréable en réalité
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d'Apollon à gauche, les cheveux longs.

Reverse


Reverse description : Taureau cornupète chargeant à droite, la légende à l’exergue et un bucrane au-dessus du taureau.
Reverse legend : [MASSA].

Commentary


Ce bronze est excessivement rare ; c’est pourtant le troisième que nous proposons, après le n° 1212 de MONNAIES 36 (vendu 228 € sur un ordre de 390 € avec trois ordres) et le bga_223355.

Le style de la tête est étrangement proche de celui des bronzes lourds au taureau, de Marseille ; il s'agit presque d’une réduction modulaire mais sans les différents.

Le revers est très particulier, avec la légende MASSA à l’exergue qui est hors flan sur cet exemplaire, mais surtout par la présence d’un bucrane au-dessus du taureau. Ce type précis est référencé PBM-30-1 dans le LATTARA 19. Dix exemplaires de cette variété existent à Lattes (n° 390-369). Parmi eux, cinq sont de petite taille et pèsent moins de 1,50 g.
Le MONETA ne répertoriait que quatre monnaies au bucrane (deux ou peut-être trois à Antibes et un dans la SNG Milan). M. Py répertorie quant à lui trois exemplaires à Antibes, deux à Arles et deux à Olbia.

Historical background


MASSALIA - MARSEILLE

(5th - 1st century BC)

Marseille, the "Massalia" of the Greeks, founded by the Phocaeans in 600 BC. -VS. , was born from the desire of the Greeks to promote trading posts in order to compete with the Carthaginians and the Etruscans for the domination of the western Mediterranean. Marseille is absolutely not a Celtic or Gallic creation and belongs to the Greek world. Between the 5th and 1st centuries BC, Marseille and its hinterland experienced unprecedented development. The rise of Rome from the First Punic War (268-241 BC). -VS. ), and the strategic choice of Marseilles, which plays Rome against Carthage, will restore, in the second half of the third century BC, a preponderant role to Massalia in the international trade of the western Mediterranean.. The second century BC marks the decline of the Phocaean city. Privileged ally of the Romans, Marseille has, thanks to them, succeeded in imposing its power in the Marseille hinterland. The Romans, by stopping the Cimbri and the Teutons, saved southern Gaul from invasions. From 118 BC. -VS. , the situation changes and the Provincia becomes a Roman province. Marseille merchants compete with Roman traders in Spain, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily. Nevertheless, they remain the allies of the Romans until the 1st century BC.. This is the beginning of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in 49 BC.. -VS. which will be fatal to the city. Marseille did not know how to choose between the two protagonists. Caesar besieged and took the city, not being able to allow his lines of communication between Gaul and Italy to be cut off.. Marseille's fleet was still too large to fall into the hands of his mortal enemy, Pompey. Conquered, the city was nevertheless not plundered and remained an important port at the beginning of the Roman domination. Remaining Hellenic, it was never really assimilated to Roman Gaul and kept a sort of independent status, mixed with cosmopolitanism where all religions crossed paths with all peoples for the greater benefit of Marseille trade..

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