v20_0169 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme "à la tête bouclée du Causé", tête romanisée, flan quadrangulaire
MONNAIES 20 (2004)
Starting price : 550.00 €
Estimate : 850.00 €
Realised price : 550.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 600.00 €
Starting price : 550.00 €
Estimate : 850.00 €
Realised price : 550.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 600.00 €
Type : Drachme "à la tête bouclée du Causé", tête romanisée, flan quadrangulaire
Date: c. 121-52 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 2,92 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie très bien centrée, tant au droit qu’au revers. Patine sable autour des reliefs et infimes petites taches noires
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche de très beau style.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Croix bouletée, formée de quatre cantons : une S au 1er canton ; annelet surmonté d’une lunule au 2e canton ; un globule au 3e canton ; annelet pointé relié à deux points au 4e canton.
Commentary
Flan coupé par un coup de burin devant le portrait et de deux coups derrière la tête. Très beau droit, avec le visage très bien venu. Les quatre cantons sont parfaitement identifiables.
Flank cut by a chisel stroke in front of the portrait and two strokes behind the head. Very fine obverse, with the face very well formed. The four cantons are perfectly identifiable.
Flank cut by a chisel stroke in front of the portrait and two strokes behind the head. Very fine obverse, with the face very well formed. The four cantons are perfectly identifiable.
Historical background
GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos)
(1st century BC)
The Sotiates or Sontiates inhabited the southwest of the current department of Lot-et-Garonne, as well as part of the Gers and the Landes, and were placed between the Elusates and the Nitiobroges. Their oppidum was Sos. If the people of the Sotiates is not itself mentioned in the Commentaries, Adietuanus, their leader, is (BG. III, 22). The latter was submitted by Publius Licinius Crassus, lieutenant of Caesar, the son of Crassus who was to die in 53 BC at the battle of Carrhae, moreover with his son. Adietanus would have surrendered to Caesar's lieutenant only after the capitulation of Sos, the capital of his people. Rallying to the Romans, the sotiate chief received the title of "Rex". Sources: Caesar (BG. III, 20, 21 and 22).
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