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v34_1260 - PICTONES (Area of Poitiers) Statère d’électrum à la main

PICTONES (Area of Poitiers) Statère d’électrum à la main VF/XF
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 500.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
Realised price : 529.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 529.00 €
Type : Statère d’électrum à la main
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Poitiers (86)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 6,77 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire en or rose frappé sur un flan large, mais avec des coins usagés. Droit et revers complets et plutôt bien centrés. Faiblesse de frappe au revers
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête (d’Ogmius) à droite, 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 droite un cheval androcéphale casqué ; dessous, une main sur un joug.

Commentary


Cet exemplaire semble avoir été frappé avec les mêmes coins de droit et de revers que le n° 707 de MONNAIES 29.
Dans le Nouvel Atlas, plus d'une quinzaine de statères de ce type sont référencés, appartenant à deux groupes distincts selon le type, armoricain ou aquitanique. Les différentes classes sont typologiquement très proches ; leur succession, "fondée sur l'évolution des poids moyens, peut avoir valeur de séquence chronologique, sans doute sur un laps de temps très court".

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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