bga_1165577 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Statère au sanglier et à l’aigle
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Type : Statère au sanglier et à l’aigle
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 6,88 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale et centré. Des faiblesses. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, la chevelure en grosses mèches spiralées ; cordons perlés enroulés autour, avec un petit sanglier au-dessus et une tête coupée derrière.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale bridé, galopant à gauche ; au-dessus, restes de la tête au bout d’un cordon perlé ; entre les jambes, un petit sanglier enseigne à droite avec un aigle à gauche devant lui.
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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