bga_241285 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - PETROCORII (Area of Perigueux) Drachme au sanglier, tête à gauche / sanglier à gauche
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Price : 210.00 €
Type : Drachme au sanglier, tête à gauche / sanglier à gauche
Date: c. 80-60 BC.
Mint name / Town : Mouliets-et-Villemartin
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 1,60 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Drachme à peine identifiable, avec un droit très mou et un revers limité à la silhouette du sanglier et à la rouelle. Patine grise et poreuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Sanglier hybride courant à gauche ; une sorte d'épis au-dessus du dos (et une petite rouelle entre les pattes).
Commentary
La série 1256 dite "au sanglier monstrueux" regroupe cinq monnaies habilement choisies pour représenter tous les différents exemplaires connus (le revers du DT. 3640 devrait subir une rotation de 180° pour correspondre au standard de la série ; il aurait donc un sanglier à gauche !).
The 1256 series, known as the \\\"monstrous boar\\\", includes five coins cleverly chosen to represent all the different known examples (the reverse of DT. 3640 would have to be rotated 180° to match the series standard; it would therefore have a boar on the left!)
The 1256 series, known as the \\\"monstrous boar\\\", includes five coins cleverly chosen to represent all the different known examples (the reverse of DT. 3640 would have to be rotated 180° to match the series standard; it would therefore have a boar on the left!)
Historical background
GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - PETROCORII (Area of Perigueux)
(1st century BC)
The Pétrocoriens or Pétrocores whose territory extended between the Dordogne and the Vézère on the current department of the Dordogne, (the former Périgord) had Périgueux for capital. They were part of Celtic Gaul and will then be attached to Aquitaine. They appear late as the Nitiobroges at the time of the final phase of the Gallic Wars. They provided a contingent of 5,000 men to the relief army. Strabo pointed out that the Petrocores were very good metallurgists and worked iron. Sources: Caesar (BG. VII, 75, Strabo IV, 2, 2).
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