v53_0660 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Quart de statère dit “à la tente”, trésor de Guingamp
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 300.00 €
Estimate : 600.00 €
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Starting price : 300.00 €
Estimate : 600.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Quart de statère dit “à la tente”, trésor de Guingamp
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 1,51 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan assez large et ovale, avec des types bien centrés et presque complets, mais avec des faiblesses de frappe. Métal de bas aloi, avec un aspect poreux et une patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acheté auprès de S. Bourgey
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 bridé, galopant à droite ; au-dessus, restes de la tête au bout d’un cordon perlé ; entre les jambes, la façade d’un temple ou “tente”.
Commentary
Cet exemplaire porte le n° 8 à l’encre noire au revers ; il provient très certainement du trésor de Guingamp, et de la collection J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu.
This example bears the number 8 in black ink on the reverse; it most certainly comes from the Guingamp treasure, and from the J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu collection
This example bears the number 8 in black ink on the reverse; it most certainly comes from the Guingamp treasure, and from the J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu collection
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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