Live auction - bga_622720 - PICTONES (Area of Poitiers) Statère d’électrum à la main
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| Estimate : | 1 200 € |
| Price : | 1 150 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 350 € |
| End of the sale : | 08 December 2020 15:56:06 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Statère d’électrum à la main
Date: IIe - Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Poitiers (86)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 7,61 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Droit frappé de manière confuse mais très beau revers particulièrement stylisé et éloigné des frappes classiques. Beau métal bien jaune
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection J. H
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête (d’Ogmius) à droite, la chevelure en grosses mèches, d’où partent des cordons perlés.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Aurige tenant une couronne dirigeant à droite un cheval androcéphale ; dessous, une main.
Commentary
Cette monnaie présente un nombre important de particularités qui nous semblent totalement inédit ! Le métal, contrairement au monnayage habituel, semble en bon or et est de poids très lourd.
Au droit, le style, bien que très brouillon est encore très orienté vers l’Armorique, les Namnètes notamment. Au revers, aucun symbole ne sort de la bouche du cheval mais il nous semble distinguer un motif en bord de tranche, reste d’un étendard ??
Cette monnaie pourrait être plus ancienne que le monnayage traditionnel des statères à la main, prototype des futurs statères ???.
This coin presents a significant number of particularities that seem to us to be totally unprecedented! The metal, unlike the usual coinage, seems to be good gold and is very heavy. On the obverse, the style, although very rough, is still very oriented towards Armorica, the Namnetes in particular. On the reverse, no symbol comes out of the horse's mouth but we seem to distinguish a motif on the edge of the edge, the remains of a standard?? This coin could be older than the traditional coinage of hand-made staters, prototype of future staters???
Au droit, le style, bien que très brouillon est encore très orienté vers l’Armorique, les Namnètes notamment. Au revers, aucun symbole ne sort de la bouche du cheval mais il nous semble distinguer un motif en bord de tranche, reste d’un étendard ??
Cette monnaie pourrait être plus ancienne que le monnayage traditionnel des statères à la main, prototype des futurs statères ???.
This coin presents a significant number of particularities that seem to us to be totally unprecedented! The metal, unlike the usual coinage, seems to be good gold and is very heavy. On the obverse, the style, although very rough, is still very oriented towards Armorica, the Namnetes in particular. On the reverse, no symbol comes out of the horse's mouth but we seem to distinguish a motif on the edge of the edge, the remains of a standard?? This coin could be older than the traditional coinage of hand-made staters, prototype of future staters???
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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