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Live auction - bga_528938 - "ROUELLES" Rouelle en argent à six rayons

 ROUELLES  Rouelle en argent à six rayons AU
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Estimate : 2 000 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 04 June 2019 16:11:05
Type : Rouelle en argent à six rayons
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28 mm
Weight : 7,18 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Taille remarquable pour une rouelle en argent ! Magnifique objet au symbolisme naviguant entre le cultuel et le monétaire. Jolie patine grise
Catalogue references :

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Commentary


Ce type de rouelle en argent se rencontre vraiment exceptionnellement.
La technique de la granulation est typique de l'orfèvrerie gauloise. Les rayons, formés de petits granulés soudés les uns aux autres étaient soudés sur la jante et reliés entre eux au centre par un gros rivet central.
Les rouelles en or et en argent avaient vraisemblablement une valeur monétaire, de par leur métal, mais aussi cultuelle !.

Historical background


"ROUELLES"

(2nd - 1st century BC)

Over the past twenty years, roundabouts have become very fashionable objects among the "Celtisians" and we have seen first the objects appear, then the "scientific" reference works which made the amalgamation between pieces really "ancient and Celtic" and all the rest whose fluctuating chronology goes from the 1st century of our era to ....... our days. Specialized studies, comparisons of material, archaeological inventories remain to be carried out before being able to decide and separate what is ancient from what is not..

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