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v32_0942 - NERVII (Currently Belgium) Statère à l’epsilon

NERVII (Currently Belgium) Statère à l’epsilon AU
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 1 500.00 €
Estimate : 2 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Statère à l’epsilon
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Metal : gold
Diameter : 15,4 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,68 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Frappé sur flan court et épais, en très bon or jaune et brillant. Comme pour la plupart de ces monnaies, éclatements de flan sur la tranche

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Reste de tête désarticulé à droite.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à encolure fourchue passant à droite ; au-dessus, une roue avec moyeu central à quatre rayons.

Commentary


Ce statère est très proche du n° 1271 vendu dans MONNAIES XV. La rouelle du revers n’a que quatre rayons.

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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