Live auction - bga_1049324 - SENONES (Area of Sens) Statère en électrum à la lyre, type de Chenôves
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| Estimate : | 2 000 € |
| Price : | 1 570 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 770 € |
| End of the sale : | 02 December 2025 15:01:01 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Statère en électrum à la lyre, type de Chenôves
Date: c. 70-50 AC.
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,96 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan court et légèrement décentré, éclaté à trois heures. Frappe un peu molle mais jolie monnaie. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Docteur G. H., 30-31 octobre 1978, n° 76
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine laurée à droite, la chevelure stylisée ; grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval galopant à gauche ; au-dessus du cheval, l'aurige ; lyre sous le cheval.
Commentary
Ces monnaies du type de Chenôves se divisent en deux types ; à la lyre (classe I) ou à la rouelle (classe II). Ce type avec la tête à droite et le cheval à gauche est rarissime !
Ce sont Louis-Pol Delestrée et Nicolas Manios, dans leur article “Un nouveau dépôt d’outils monétaires, retour sur les monnayages des Sénons” ( CN n°235, mars 2023), qui réattribuent ce monnayage jusqu’alors considéré comme Eduens, aux Sénons.
These coins of the Chenôves type are divided into two types: with a lyre (class I) or with a wheel (class II). This type, with the head facing right and the horse facing left, is extremely rare! Louis-Pol Delestrée and Nicolas Manios, in their article “A New Deposit of Coinage Tools: A Look Back at the Coinage of the Senones” (CN no. 235, March 2023), reattributed this coinage, previously considered to be Aedui, to the Senones.
Ce sont Louis-Pol Delestrée et Nicolas Manios, dans leur article “Un nouveau dépôt d’outils monétaires, retour sur les monnayages des Sénons” ( CN n°235, mars 2023), qui réattribuent ce monnayage jusqu’alors considéré comme Eduens, aux Sénons.
These coins of the Chenôves type are divided into two types: with a lyre (class I) or with a wheel (class II). This type, with the head facing right and the horse facing left, is extremely rare! Louis-Pol Delestrée and Nicolas Manios, in their article “A New Deposit of Coinage Tools: A Look Back at the Coinage of the Senones” (CN no. 235, March 2023), reattributed this coinage, previously considered to be Aedui, to the Senones.
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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