Live auction - bga_412074 - SENONES (Area of Sens) Statère en électrum à la lyre, type de Chenôves
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| Estimate : | 2 000 € |
| Price : | 1 200 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 855 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 December 2016 15:02:00 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Statère en électrum à la lyre, type de Chenôves
Date: c. 70-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Autun (71)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 7 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Statère sur un flan un peu court, en or très clair presque gris. Revers centré et droit légèrement décalé à sur la droite
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine laurée à droite, la chevelure stylisée ; grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval galopant à droite ; au-dessus du cheval, l'aurige ; lyre sous le cheval.
Commentary
La série dite de Chenôves regroupe toutes ces monnaies (statères et quarts de statère) sur flan court et épais avec divers symboles au revers (lyre, roue et triskèle). Cet exemplaire à la lyre est très proche du LT. 4843 (repris par D. Nash et aussi dans le Nouvel Atlas) avec le même genre de centrage au droit..
The so-called Chenôves series includes all these coins (staters and quarter-staters) on a short, thick flan with various symbols on the reverse (lyre, wheel, and triskelion). This lyre-shaped example is very close to LT. 4843 (reprinted by D. Nash and also in the New Atlas) with the same type of centering on the obverse.
The so-called Chenôves series includes all these coins (staters and quarter-staters) on a short, thick flan with various symbols on the reverse (lyre, wheel, and triskelion). This lyre-shaped example is very close to LT. 4843 (reprinted by D. Nash and also in the New Atlas) with the same type of centering 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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