v15_0762 - NAMNETES (Area of Nantes) Quart de statère à l'hippophore
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 215.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 215.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Quart de statère à l'hippophore
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Nantes (44)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,37 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Le droit est pratiquement lisse. Très joli revers sur un flan un peu court
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête large et massive à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale galopant à droite conduit par un aurige étendant la main droite ; entre les pattes du cheval, hippophore.
Commentary
Poids léger. La couleur de cet exemplaire est encore très jaune, mais il doit contenir une part importante de cuivre. L’appellation à l’hippophore vient du personnage qui est placé sous le cheval au revers (mot à mot celui qui porte le cheval où hippos se traduit par cheval et phoros par qui porte, en grec).
Lightweight. The color of this specimen is still very yellow, but it must contain a significant amount of copper. The name hippophora comes from the character placed under the horse on the reverse (literally the one who carries the horse where hippos translates as horse and phoros as who carries, in Greek)
Lightweight. The color of this specimen is still very yellow, but it must contain a significant amount of copper. The name hippophora comes from the character placed under the horse on the reverse (literally the one who carries the horse where hippos translates as horse and phoros as who carries, in Greek)
Historical background
NAMNETES (Area of Nantes)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Armorican people, the Namnètes were installed at the mouth of the Loire whose course separated them from the Pictons. Their name is retained by that of the city of Nantes. Their maritime role seems to have been important and they participated in the operations against the Romans in 56 BC and supported the Venetian fleet. It is among the Veneti that Strabo places the port of tin, Corbilo. Caesar (BG. III, 9). Strabo (G. IV, 2, 1).
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