bga_740818 - REDONES (Area of Rennes) Statère d’or à la cavalière armée et à la lyre
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Price : 800.00 €
Type : Statère d’or à la cavalière armée et à la lyre
Date: c. 200-150 AC.
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,64 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Usure importante et faiblesses de frappe mais exemplaire rarissime parfaitement identifiable !
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée à droite ; la mèche au-dessus du front en forme d’esse.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cavalière à droite, brandissant un bouclier et une épée ; entre les jambes du cheval, un lyre accostée d’une croisette bouletée.
Commentary
Cette série à la cavalière armée est composée de rarissimes monnaies au foudre et de rares monnaies à la lyre. Ce second groupe est plus diversifié, dans la style et dans les ornements du revers. D’un style de droit très proche du DT. 2090, ce statère a bien deux croisettes autour de la lyre sous le cheval (comme le n° 241 du musée de Péronnes).
This series with the armed rider is made up of extremely rare thunderbolt coins and rare lyre coins. This second group is more diverse, in style and in the ornaments of the reverse. A style of law very close to the DT. 2090, this stater has two crosslets around the lyre under the horse (like n° 241 from the Péronnes museum)
This series with the armed rider is made up of extremely rare thunderbolt coins and rare lyre coins. This second group is more diverse, in style and in the ornaments of the reverse. A style of law very close to the DT. 2090, this stater has two crosslets around the lyre under the horse (like n° 241 from the Péronnes museum)
Historical background
REDONES (Area of Rennes)
(3rd - 1st century BC)
The Redons occupied the eastern part of Armorica, corresponding to the current department of Ille-et-Vilaine. Their neighbors were the Coriosolites, the Namnètes, the Unelles and the Aulerques. They would have had an outlet on the sea, at the level of the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel. Their surname is found in the towns of Redon and Rennes (Condate). They were part of the coalition of 57 BC, which shied away from combat, and were subjugated by Crassus. The following year, the Roman emissaries were taken prisoner, which forced Caesar to intervene in Armorica in order to subdue the rebellious tribes, before moving to Brittany the following year to punish the tribes from across the Channel who had brought their support for the Armoricans. In 52 BC, at the request of Vercingetorix, they provided a contingent for the relief army; this, according to Caesar, included twenty thousand men for all the Armoricans. Caesar (BG. II, 34, VII, 75).
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