bga_242197 - GALLIA BELGICA - REMI (Area of Reims) Potin au guerrier courant et “à l’élan”
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Price : 145.00 €
Type : Potin au guerrier courant et “à l’élan”
Date: c. 90-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Reims (51)
Metal : potin
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,55 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Potin avec de très beaux reliefs, sauf devant le personnage avec une zone plus molle. Belle patine brune et orangée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Personnage courant à droite, la chevelure nattée, tenant un torque et une lance. Bourrelet périphérique.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Animal (?) surmonté d’une fibule. Bourrelet périphérique.
Commentary
La particularité de cette variété est d'avoir un animal tout à fait différent des exemplaires précédents ; il ferait penser à un ruminant (cerf ou élan), comparable à celui du potin LT. 8143. Sur cet exemplaire, le torque du droit semble être remplacé par un annelet parfaitement circulaire.
Exemplaire de poids relativement lourd pour ce type.
The particularity of this variety is to have an animal completely different from the previous examples; it would make one think of a ruminant (deer or elk), comparable to that of the potin LT. 8143. On this example, the torque of the right seems to be replaced by a perfectly circular annulet. Example of relatively heavy weight for this type
Exemplaire de poids relativement lourd pour ce type.
The particularity of this variety is to have an animal completely different from the previous examples; it would make one think of a ruminant (deer or elk), comparable to that of the potin LT. 8143. On this example, the torque of the right seems to be replaced by a perfectly circular annulet. Example of relatively heavy weight for this type
Historical background
GALLIA BELGICA - REMI (Area of Reims)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Remi were one of the most powerful peoples of Gaul and loyal allies of the Romans. The territory of the Rèmes extended over present-day Champagne, along the Aisne. They had for neighbors the Atuatuci, the Treveri, the Mediomatrics, the Lingones, the Suessions, the Bellovaci and the Nervians. They denounced to Caesar the coalition of Belgian peoples of 57 BC which included the Suessions who shared the same laws and the same magistrates. Their main oppidum was Bibrax. The capital of the civitas in Gallo-Roman times was Durocortorum (Reims). Caesar (BG. II, 3-5, 7, 12; III, 11; V, 3, 24, 53, 54, 56; VI, 4, 12, 44; VII, 63, 90; VIII, 6, 11) . Strabo (G. IV, 3, 5). Kruta: 70, 313-314, 366.
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