bga_114902 - SENONES (Area of Sens) Potin à la tête “d’indien”
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Type : Potin à la tête “d’indien”
Date: c. avant 52 AC.
Metal : potin
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Potin complet, avec une belle patine grise
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Commentary
Cette monnaie est certainement la moins rare du monnayage gaulois et souvent la première d’une collection. Il existe des variantes selon le nombre de cheveux au droit.
This coin is certainly the least rare of the Gallic coinage and often the first in a collection. There are variants depending on the number of hairs on the obverse.
This coin is certainly the least rare of the Gallic coinage and often the first in a collection. There are variants depending on the number of hairs on the obverse.
Historical background
SENONES (Area of Sens)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Sénons, whose name means the sages or the elders, controlled a vast territory which extended between the south of Champagne and the north of Burgundy. Their main oppidum was Agedincum (Sens) which still retains the name of the ancient civitas today. They had several other oppida like Auxerre, Tonnerre or Avallon. Divona seems to have been the principal sanctuary of the Senones. Caesar had wintered six of his legions in 53 BC at Agedincum. Labienus, Caesar's lieutenant and legate, came to settle in the region of Sens between Gergovie and Alesia in order to control the roads and protect Caesar's armies from an attack from the Belgians or the Germans. Caesar (BG. II, 2; V, 54, 56; VI, 2, 3, 44; VII, 4, 10, 11, 34, 56-59, 62, 75). Ptolemy (G. II, 8, 9).
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