bga_311500 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Quart de statère au personnage couché
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Price : 300.00 €
Type : Quart de statère au personnage couché
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 12,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,43 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Quart sur un flan un peu court, avec des types assez bien frappés à centrés. Métal très cuivreux, avec une patine rouge, un peu concrétionnée au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, la chevelure en trois grosses mèches ; cordons perlés enroulés autour .
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale à droite ; au-dessus, restes de la tête de l'aurige au bout d'un cordon perlé ; un petit personnage ailé (?) entre les jambes du cheval et une rouelle devant le poitrail du cheval.
Commentary
Les quarts de statère au personnage couché sont surtout connus par la trouvaille de Perros-Guirec qui en contenait cinq, soit un tiers de tous les exemplaires connus.
The quarter staters with the reclining figure are best known from the find at Perros-Guirec which contained five, or a third of all known examples.
The quarter staters with the reclining figure are best known from the find at Perros-Guirec which contained five, or a third of all known examples.
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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