E-auction 54-23760 - bga_264403 - GALLIA - SANTONES / MID-WESTERN, Unspecified Bronze CONTOVTOS (quadrans)
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| Estimate : | 75 € |
| Price : | 20 € |
| Maximum bid : | 28 € |
| End of the sale : | 28 April 2014 15:19:30 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Bronze CONTOVTOS (quadrans)
Date: c. 40 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,55 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, mais frappe décentrée au droit et au revers. La tête est néanmoins complète. Frappe molle sur l’avant du sanglier. Patine sombre
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONTOVTOS, N ET T LIGATURÉES.
Obverse description : Tête masculine romanisée à droite les cheveux courts.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Louve bondissant à droite, la gueule ouverte ; sous les pattes, un bucrane ; derrière, un buisson.
Commentary
Au revers, la trace du bord du coin est assez nette derrière le sanglier.
Les lettres CONT sont assez nettes mais les suivantes sont comme bouchées dans le coin !.
On the reverse, the trace of the die edge is quite clear behind the boar. The letters CONT are quite clear, but the following ones are as if blocked in the corner!
Les lettres CONT sont assez nettes mais les suivantes sont comme bouchées dans le coin !.
On the reverse, the trace of the die edge is quite clear behind the boar. The letters CONT are quite clear, but the following ones are as if blocked in the corner!
Historical background
GALLIA - SANTONES / MID-WESTERN, Unspecified
(1st century BC)
A large part of the coinage of the Center-West still poses delicate problems of restitution today. To the fine, sometimes very detailed attributions of the two previous centuries (19th and 20th centuries), the historians of Gaul, with a view to globalization, prefer to refer to large geographical groups. Isn't the most important thing today that we are in possession of the archaeological object itself? Nevertheless if, in the future, the attitude of the discoverers of coins, fortuitous discoveries or not, official or not, allied to the benevolence of our sometimes suspicious archaeologists could allow us, thanks to a close collaboration (collaborare, to work together in Latin) and extent of their respective competences, to have a better knowledge of the places of discoveries, we could see gradually disappearing all these attributions "uncertain this, uncertain that" for the greatest pleasure of each and the Knowledge of all.
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