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Live auction - bga_571559 - PARISII (Area of Paris) Potin au loup mangeur et à la rouelle

PARISII (Area of Paris) Potin au loup mangeur et à la rouelle XF/AU
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Estimate : 3 000 €
Price : 1 717 €
Maximum bid : 2 700 €
End of the sale : 10 March 2020 15:59:59
bidders : 2 bidders
Type : Potin au loup mangeur et à la rouelle
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Paris (75)
Metal : potin
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,19 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Représentation exceptionnelle au revers et très beau droit. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
LT.9194  - DT.683  - Sch/GB.674

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête nue à droite, la chevelure en mèches chevronnées tirées en arrière ; grènetis et bourrelet périphérique.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Petit personnage à l’alure de batracien, le bras mangé par un loup (?) ; sous le personnage, une rouelle ; grènetis et bourrelet périphérique.

Commentary

Ce type de potin est extraordinaire ; c’est le second que nous rencontrons depuis une vingtaine d’années. Il manque à la plupart des musées et ne passe quasiment jamais en vente !
Anciennement attribué aux Suessions ou aux Meldes, il a été restitué à la Région Parisienne dans le Nouvel Atlas, avec le potin parisii au cheval DT. 682.
Dans la composition du revers, J. Debord voit une scène de la mythologie germanique, où le loup Fenrir dévore le bras du dieu Tyr. P.-M. Duval ne reprend pourtant pas cette rare monnaie dans son ouvrage “Monnaies gauloises et mythes celtiques”.

Historical background

PARISII (Area of Paris)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Parisii were a small but powerful people whose oppidum was Lutèce. Related to the Sénons, the Parisii and the city would have emancipated themselves from their tutelage, relatively late, after the Arverne defeat of 121 BC. The wealth of the Parisii rested on the river control of the Seine and the confluences with the Marne, Bièvre, Ourcq and Oise. César chooses Lutèce, in 53 before J. - C. to convene the assembly of the Gallic peoples. The Parisii were among the first to answer the call of Vercingetorix, the following year, in 52 BC, and they provided a contingent of eight thousand men for the relief army. Watched over by Labienus, friend and legate of Caesar, the territory of the Parisii was the scene of the last battles between Gauls and Romans. Eventually, the Aulercan chief Camulogenes was defeated and killed near Lutetia. Caesar (BG. VI, 3; VII, 4, 34, 57, 75). Kruta: 36, 40 46, 68, 365, 368.

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