v43_1154 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Quart de statère dit “à la barrière”
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
Realised price : 330.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 850.00 €
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
Realised price : 330.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 850.00 €
Type : Quart de statère dit “à la barrière”
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,50 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie d’un style fruste, donnant un air sévère au portrait. Importantes faiblesses de frappe sur les parties supérieures du droit et du revers
Predigree :
Quart de statère n° 22 du trésor de Plouguerneau, provenant de la collection J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu. C’est aussi le n° 299 de TRESOR II
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 ; au-dessus, restes de l’aurige ; la “barrière” d’hippodrome entre les jambes du cheval.
Commentary
Les exemplaires n° 59, 65, 70 et 71 de la trouvaille de Plouguerneau sont frappés avec ce coin de revers R52. Cet exemplaire s’était glissé par erreur avec des monnaies du trésor de Guingamp dans le catalogue TRESOR II ; c’était alors la seule monnaie à ne pas avoir trouvé preneur.
examples No. 59, 65, 70 and 71 of the Plouguerneau find are struck with this R52 reverse die. This example had slipped by mistake with coins from the Guingamp treasure into the TRESOR II catalogue; it was then the only coin not to have found a buyer.
examples No. 59, 65, 70 and 71 of the Plouguerneau find are struck with this R52 reverse die. This example had slipped by mistake with coins from the Guingamp treasure into the TRESOR II catalogue; it was then the only coin not to have found a buyer.
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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