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bga_283888 - GALLIA - BELGICA - PARIS AREA Potin à la tête de face
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Price : 235.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 235.00 €
Type : Potin à la tête de face
Date: c.70-50 AC.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 3,23 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Potin aux reliefs un peu mous, mais avec un avers et un revers parfaitement identifiables. Patine sombre et brillante, avec de légers restes de concrétions
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine de face, aux joues gonflées, cheveux crépus, le nez triangulaire et le menton pointu ; les yeux sont vides ; le visage accosté de quatre globules.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval galopant à gauche, accosté de deux gros globules et de deux plus petits devant le poitrail et sous le postérieur.
Commentary
Représentation exceptionnelle dans le monnayage gaulois.
Il semble que des variantes puissent être distinguées, selon que les yeux sont marqués (tous les deux ou un seul sur les deux) ou pas. Le n° 687 de MONNAIES XV avait clairement les yeux vides tandis que le n° 831 de MONNAIES XXIII avait deux yeux marqués.
Cet exemplaire a lui aussi les deux yeux !.
An exceptional representation in Gallic coinage. It seems that variants can be distinguished, depending on whether the eyes are marked (both or just one of the two) or not. No. 687 of COINS XV clearly had empty eyes, while No. 831 of COINS XXIII had two marked eyes. This example also has both eyes!
Il semble que des variantes puissent être distinguées, selon que les yeux sont marqués (tous les deux ou un seul sur les deux) ou pas. Le n° 687 de MONNAIES XV avait clairement les yeux vides tandis que le n° 831 de MONNAIES XXIII avait deux yeux marqués.
Cet exemplaire a lui aussi les deux yeux !.
An exceptional representation in Gallic coinage. It seems that variants can be distinguished, depending on whether the eyes are marked (both or just one of the two) or not. No. 687 of COINS XV clearly had empty eyes, while No. 831 of COINS XXIII had two marked eyes. This example also has both eyes!
Historical background
GALLIA - BELGICA - PARIS AREA
(1st century BC)
Under the term Parisian region are gathered all the coins, generally of bronze or pewter, which cannot be attributed to the Parisii, even if sometimes some of their examples have been found in Paris, in the Seine. These "peripheral" coins are often found locally or located in geographical areas of the current Paris region. Need we remind you that the Parisii emancipated themselves late from Senone supervision, even if this cliché is sometimes called into question today? These pagi coins must have had a limited circulation area and are often, even today, rare. Once again, only a precise map of the distribution of the finds will make it possible to better understand and better situate these coinages which are only poorly known because the various stakeholders concerned do not want to take the trouble to make them known..
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