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bga_1002678 - NERVII (Currently Belgium) Bronze VIROS au cavalier

NERVII (Currently Belgium) Bronze VIROS au cavalier VF/VF
60.00 €(Approx. 68.40$ | 51.00£)
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Type : Bronze VIROS au cavalier
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 4,61 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan centré. Usure très importante mais type identifiable. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : [VIROS].
Obverse description : Restes de tête à droite avec un annelet pointé sous le menton ; légende devant le visage.

Reverse


Reverse legend : VIR[OS].
Reverse description : Cavalier levant les bras à droite, entre deux annelets pointés ; une esse entre les jambes ; la légende au-dessus de la tête du cheval, devant le cavalier.

Commentary


Cet exemplaire présente normalement la légende VIROS en bord de flan devant le visage. Le centrage de l’exemplaire du British Museum (repris par S. Scheers et aussi dans le Nouvel Atlas en moulage colorisé) ne permettait pas de la distinguer.
Dans son inventaire, S. Scheers ne répertoriait que 12 exemplaires ; 7 à la BN, 2 à Bruxelles, un à Douai, un autre à Namur et celui de Londres.
Ce type de bronze reste rare sur le marché. Le beau bronze bga_261066 de CELTIC II avait été vendu 450€.

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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