bga_302837 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Quart de statère au taureau et à l’aigle - cheval androcéphale
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Price : 750.00 €
Type : Quart de statère au taureau et à l’aigle - cheval androcéphale
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 1,58 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et ovale, avec un superbe avers mais un revers un peu défectueux, de frappe décentrée. Agréable patine encore un peu hétérogène
Catalogue references :
LT.6584 - DT.2224-2225 - ABT.- - BN.6580-6584 - MCB.144-149 - Sch/L.874-875 - Sch/D.232 - Sch/SM.454
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, la chevelure en trois grosses mèches ; cordons perlés enroulés autour ; une croisette aux extrémités bouletées devant la bouche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale bridé, galopant à gauche ; un aigle picorant à gauche, posé sur la croupe ; un taureau à droite entre les jambes du cheval.
Commentary
Ce quart de statère, attribué avec certitude aux Osismes, est très rare. Le revers a la particularité de regrouper ensemble le cheval, le taureau et l'aigle ; il ne manque que le sanglier pour que le bestiaire gaulois traditionnel soit au complet.
Le statère unité de ce type existe avec deux types de revers ; l'un avec un cheval androcéphale et l'autre non androcéphale. Quant aux quarts, ils semblaient tous avoir un cheval androcéphale... jusqu’à la publication des DT. S2226A et S2226B.
This quarter stater, attributed with certainty to the Osismi, is very rare. The reverse has the particularity of grouping together the horse, the bull and the eagle; only the boar is missing for the traditional Gallic bestiary to be complete. The unit stater of this type exists with two types of reverse; one with an androcephalic horse and the other non-androcephalic. As for the quarters, they all seemed to have an androcephalic horse... until the publication of DT. S2226A and S2226B
Le statère unité de ce type existe avec deux types de revers ; l'un avec un cheval androcéphale et l'autre non androcéphale. Quant aux quarts, ils semblaient tous avoir un cheval androcéphale... jusqu’à la publication des DT. S2226A et S2226B.
This quarter stater, attributed with certainty to the Osismi, is very rare. The reverse has the particularity of grouping together the horse, the bull and the eagle; only the boar is missing for the traditional Gallic bestiary to be complete. The unit stater of this type exists with two types of reverse; one with an androcephalic horse and the other non-androcephalic. As for the quarters, they all seemed to have an androcephalic horse... until the publication of DT. S2226A and S2226B
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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