Live auction - bga_714767 - MEDIOMATRICI, Unspecified Quart de statère au pégase

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AU/XF

Estimate :	2 000 €
Price :	1 000 €
Maximum bid :	1 000 €
End of the sale :	08 March 2022 16:00:19
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Quart de statère au pégase

Date: IIe siècle avant J.-C.

Metal : gold

Diameter : 15 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 1,8 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie bien centrée, une jolie tête bien détaillée au droit et un joli revers visible dans son intégralité

Catalogue references :

LT.manque - DT.108 - BN.4600-4606 - Z.491-496 - Sch/GB.149-150 - Sch/D.359 - Sch/L.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête chevelue à droite, aux mèches ondulées et tirées en arrière.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Reverse description : Cheval ailé à droite, un globule irrégulier sous les jambes avant ; une ligne d'exergue au-dessus de deux lignes perlées.

Commentary

Au revers, les deux lignes de globules simulent une légende. Ce type est relativement rare, surtout dans ce genre d'état de conservation, bien que 100 exemplaires soient recensés par S. Scheers !
Présence de fissures au droit et au revers, monnaie qui est donc assez fragile mais bien complète !.

Historical background

MEDIOMATRICI, Unspecified

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Médiomatriques were a very powerful people of Belgian Gaul. They were strongly Romanized and owed their wealth to the salt trade. They were installed on the Moselle and controlled part of the Vosges and Alsace. They had for neighbors the Treveri, the Remi, the Lingones, the Leuci and the Sequani. They provided a contingent of five thousand men for the relief army intended to free Alesia. Their main oppidum was Divodurum (Metz). Caesar (BG. IV, 10; VII, 75).