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v31_0779 - PICTONES (Area of Poitiers) Drachme au cavalier et à la main

PICTONES (Area of Poitiers) Drachme au cavalier et à la main XF
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 272.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 301.00 €
Type : Drachme au cavalier et à la main
Date: c. 80-60 AC.
Mint name / Town : Poitiers (86)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,10 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,45 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan un peu court et de frappe légèrement décentrée au droit et au revers. Défaut de coin derrière la tête au droit. Fine patine marron avec les zones plus en reliefs brillantes résultant d'un léger nettoyage de surface
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, la chevelure formée de petits traits et de petites esses juxtaposées, avec une grosse esse au niveau de l'oreille.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cavalier tenant un bouclier et les rênes galopant à droite ; sous le cheval, une main ; grènetis.

Commentary


Ce type de drachme est très rare ; trois ou quatre exemplaires sont conservés à la BN, un à Nantes et un à Rouen. Les seuls autres passés en vente semblent être celui de la vente Cahn en 1933 (coll. de Saulcy), celui de la vente Platt 1988 et ceux des ventes Bourgey 1985 et 1987, soit environ dix exemplaires au total dont la moitié en musées.
Ce type de droit constitue la classe I "tête à la coiffure classique et revers à la main" de la série 1034 "cavalier et bouclier". L'attribution proposée dans le Nouvel Atlas est aux Bituriges, de même que les drachmes dites "au cavalier ailé des Pictons". Si l'attribution aux Pictons n'est pas totalement satisfaisante pour ces drachmes "au cavalier et bouclier", tout attribuer aux Bituriges nous semble assez arbitraire….
This type of drachma is very rare; three or four examples are preserved at the National Library, one in Nantes and one in Rouen. The only others that have been sold seem to be the one from the Cahn sale in 1933 (Saulcy collection), the one from the Platt sale in 1988 and those from the Bourgey sales in 1985 and 1987, i.e. around ten examples in total, half of which are in museums. This type of right constitutes class I \\\"head with classical hairstyle and lapel in hand\\\" of series 1034 \\\"horseman and shield\\\". The attribution proposed in the New Atlas is to the Bituriges, as are the drachmas called \\\"with the winged rider of the Pictons\\\". If the attribution to the Pictons is not entirely satisfactory for these drachmas \\\"with the rider and shield\\\", attributing everything to the Bituriges seems rather arbitrary to us...

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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