bga_277404 - NERVII (Currently Belgium) Bronze VERCIO/VERCIO
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 140.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 140.00 €
Type : Bronze VERCIO/VERCIO
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 5,41 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Bronze lourd et épais, avec des types incomplet mais bien identifiables et centrés sur un flan un peu court. Épaisse patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : [VE-RC-IO].
Obverse description : Lion à droite, la queue redressée ; la légende en trois morceaux, VE sous le ventre, RC entre les pattes avant et la gueule, IO entre les pattes arrière et la queue.
Reverse
Reverse legend : [VE-RC-IO].
Reverse description : Cheval “nervien” à droite, une rouelle à quatre rayons au-dessus ; la légende en trois morceaux, autour du cheval.
Commentary
Il existe deux variétés pour ce type de bronze ; la première avec le droit à droite (comme celui-ci) et une deuxième avec le droit à gauche. Cette dernière variété est illustrée dans le Nouvel Atlas de Delestrée et Tache, par un fac-similé d'un exemplaire trouvé sur le sanctuaire de Blicquy, dans le Hainaut.
Ce type de module, assez inhabituel dans le monnayage gaulois, est à mettre en relation avec les bronzes ATISIOS REMO.
There are two varieties of this type of bronze; the first with the right on the right (like this one) and a second with the right on the left. This latter variety is illustrated in the New Atlas of Delestrée and Tache, by a facsimile of a example found at the sanctuary of Blicquy, in Hainaut. This type of module, quite unusual in Gallic coinage, is to be linked to the ATISIOS REMO bronzes
Ce type de module, assez inhabituel dans le monnayage gaulois, est à mettre en relation avec les bronzes ATISIOS REMO.
There are two varieties of this type of bronze; the first with the right on the right (like this one) and a second with the right on the left. This latter variety is illustrated in the New Atlas of Delestrée and Tache, by a facsimile of a example found at the sanctuary of Blicquy, in Hainaut. This type of module, quite unusual in Gallic coinage, is to be linked to the ATISIOS REMO bronzes
Historical background
NERVII (Currently Belgium)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Les Nerviens belong to the large Belgian group. Their territory was very vast and extended over the north of present-day Belgium, located between Scheldt and Sambre. Their neighbors were the Menapians, the Eburones, the Remes, the Bellovaci, the Viromanduans and the Atrebates.. They had several client peoples including the Ceutrons and the Lévaques. In 57 BC. -VS. , they provided a contingent of fifty thousand men to the Belgian coalition, led by the Bellovaques. César describes them as "the fiercest of the Belgians". They were defeated at the Battle of the Sambre and decimated. Only five hundred warriors would have survived out of the sixty thousand engaged. They submitted and received the protection of the Romans, which did not prevent them, in 54 BC. -VS. , to join the sedition of Ambiorix, Eburon leader who revolted against Caesar and besieged Quintus Cicero, who was finally freed by his leader. They were preparing for war when Caesar led his troops into their territory and crushed them in 53 BC.. -VS. Nevertheless, they still provided a contingent of five thousand men to rescue Vercingetorix besieged in Alesia. Caesar (BG. II, 4, 15-17, 19, 23, 28, 29, 32; V, 24, 38, 39, 41, 42, 45, 46, 48, 56, 58; VI, 2, 3, 29; VII, 75). Strabo (G. IV, 3, 4).
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