bga_1008497 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Quart de statère dit “à la tente”
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Type : Quart de statère dit “à la tente”
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,69 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan court et bien centré. De jolis détails malgré quelques faiblesses, revers agréable. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Monnaie provenant de la collection André Libaud
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° 97 à l’encre noire au revers. Il provient de la trouvaille de Guingamp.
This example bears No. 97 in black ink on the reverse. It comes from the Guingamp find
This example bears No. 97 in black ink on the reverse. It comes from the Guingamp find
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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