bga_241667 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Quart de statère au personnage couché, fourré
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Price : 280.00 €
Type : Quart de statère au personnage couché, fourré
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 1,25 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan court et fourré, difficilement identifiable, mais bien frappé avec des types complets et centrés. Patine hétérogène avec une surface irrégulière
Predigree :
Ce quart provient de la collection P. Gendre et est indiqué provenir de Vendeuil-Caply (60) (?)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, la chevelure en trois grosses mèches ; cordons perlés enroulés autour .
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale à gauche ; entre les jambes du cheval, un petit personnage couché (?).
Commentary
Cette monnaie semble très rare avec le cheval à gauche !
Le style de tête est typiquement osisme, mais le revers ne correspond pas aux types connus pour ce peuple. Pris individuellement, le revers se rapprocherait plutôt des quarts d'électrum des Diablintes (?).
This coin seems very rare with the horse on the left! The head style is typically Osism, but the reverse does not correspond to the known types for this people. Taken individually, the reverse would be closer to the Diablintes electrum quarters (?)
Le style de tête est typiquement osisme, mais le revers ne correspond pas aux types connus pour ce peuple. Pris individuellement, le revers se rapprocherait plutôt des quarts d'électrum des Diablintes (?).
This coin seems very rare with the horse on the left! The head style is typically Osism, but the reverse does not correspond to the known types for this people. Taken individually, the reverse would be closer to the Diablintes electrum quarters (?)
Historical background
GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère)
(2nd - 1st centuries BC)
The Osismes were an Armorican people, settled in the current department of Finistère, at the northwestern end of Gaul and the Armorican coasts. They had as chief town Vorgium, today Carhaix. Their neighbors were the Veneti and the Coriosolites. Their name would mean "the furthest away" or "the people at the end of the world". They were subjugated by Caesar's army in 57 along with the other Armorican peoples. But from 56, they joined the coalition led by the Venetians. They will participate in the contingent of twenty-five thousand men provided in 52 BC to the army of the Gallic coalition by the Armorican peoples. Caesar (BG. II, 34, III, 9, VII, 75, 1). Pliny (HN IV, 107). Ptolemy (II, 8). Kruta, page 766.
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