v61_0358 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Statère dit “à la barrière”
MONNAIES 61 (2014)
Starting price : 900.00 €
Estimate : 1 400.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 900.00 €
Estimate : 1 400.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Statère dit “à la barrière”
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,13 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Statère de qualité, sur un flan large mais avec des faiblesses de frappe périphériques, au droit comme au revers, en raison de la forme du flan. Patine grise de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Il semblerait que cet exemplaire provienne du trésor de Plouguerneau
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, la chevelure en grosses mèches, cordons perlés enroulés autour ; une croisette au-dessus de la tête.
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 et une rouelle devant le poitrail.
Commentary
Ce statère n’est que le troisième de ce type que nous proposons, après celui de TRESOR II et le n° 673 de MONNAIES 26. Seulement 16 exemplaires de ce statère ont été répertoriés par les auteurs de Moneta. Cet exemplaire est assez lourd.
This stater is only the third of this type that we offer, after that of TRESOR II and No. 673 of COINS 26. Only 16 examples of this stater have been listed by the authors of Moneta. This example is quite heavy
This stater is only the third of this type that we offer, after that of TRESOR II and No. 673 of COINS 26. Only 16 examples of this stater have been listed by the authors of Moneta. This example is quite heavy
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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