Live auction - bga_1051591 - PICTONES (Area of Poitiers) Statère d’or bas à la joue tatouée, revers à gauche
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| Estimate : | 2 000 € |
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| End of the sale : | 23 September 2025 15:55:18 |
Type : Statère d’or bas à la joue tatouée, revers à gauche
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Poitiers (86)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 6,91 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie bien identifiable, avec des reliefs très émoussés ; de frappe molle. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête (d’Ogmius) à droite, la joue ornée, le nez droit, la chevelure en grosses mèches, d’où partent des cordons perlés ; un symbole en forme de joug devant la bouche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Aurige tenant une couronne dirigeant à gauche un cheval androcéphale casqué ; dessous, une main sur un joug.
Commentary
Ce statère d’électrum est atypique par l’ornement (tatouage) de la joue au droit (à peine visible sur cet exemplaire), mais surtout par l’orientation du cheval au revers !
Excessivement rare, ce statère est du même type que la monnaie DT. S 3656 A du supplément du Nouvel Atlas Tome 4.
Sous le cheval, la main est bien visible sur cet exemplaire, traitée comme un peigne.
This electrum stater is atypical because of the ornament (tattoo) on the cheek on the right (barely visible on this example), but especially because of the orientation of the horse on the reverse! Extremely rare, this stater is of the same type as the coin DT. S 3656 A from the supplement to the New Atlas Volume 4. Under the horse, the hand is clearly visible on this example, treated like a comb
Excessivement rare, ce statère est du même type que la monnaie DT. S 3656 A du supplément du Nouvel Atlas Tome 4.
Sous le cheval, la main est bien visible sur cet exemplaire, traitée comme un peigne.
This electrum stater is atypical because of the ornament (tattoo) on the cheek on the right (barely visible on this example), but especially because of the orientation of the horse on the reverse! Extremely rare, this stater is of the same type as the coin DT. S 3656 A from the supplement to the New Atlas Volume 4. Under the horse, the hand is clearly visible on this example, treated like a comb
Historical background
PICTONES (Area of Poitiers)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Pictons were a people of the Celtic settled in the current Poitou to whom they gave their name. Their capital was Lemonum (origin: lemo or limo = elm), at the confluence of the Clain and the Boivre, on a fortified oppidum, today Poitiers. They were a people who had good sailors. Their name comes from the fact that they painted their faces, Pictavi, name given by Caesar. He enlisted five thousand Pictons as auxiliaries in 56 BC. -VS. , in order to build boats for his campaign against the Veneti. This fleet was also used for the Brittany expedition in 55 BC.. -VS. In 52 BC. -VS. , they provided eight thousand men to the relief army to go and deliver Alesia, besieged by Caesar. Among the Picton chiefs mentioned several times, we find Atectorix and Duratios. Atectorix seems to have been a Gallic chief or notable who was to create an "ala I Gallorum Atectorigiana" at the end of Caesar's stay in Gaul (50 BC).. -VS. ) or just after leaving for Italy. The troop thus created constituted a unit of auxiliaries, soldiers who served in the Roman armies but were not integrated into the legions.. As for Duratios, a Gallic chief, he was one of the kings of the Pictons. Faithful ally of the Romans, he was besieged in 51 BC. -VS. by Dumnacus, Chief of the Andes, in Lemonum (Poitiers). He was delivered by Caius Fabius. Later, Caesar gave him the right of Roman citizenship. It is mentioned by Hirtius. Caesar (BG. III, 11; VII, 4 and 75; VIII, 26 and 27). Strabo (G. IV, 2, 1). Kruta: 68, 365-366.
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