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bga_131891 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme "à la tête bouclée du Causé"

GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme  à la tête bouclée du Causé  AU
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Price : 120.00 €
Type : Drachme "à la tête bouclée du Causé"
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Metal : silver
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Droit limité à la chevelure. Revers complet. Patine grise irisée
Catalogue references :
LT.3015 var

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Commentary

Le nom de ce type vient du trésor, trouvé en 1897 sur Le Causé (Tarn-et-Garonne), qui a livré plus de 1.500 drachmes. L’attribution aux Sotiates ne semble pas devoir être remise en question. D’après le classement de G. Savès, le monnayage bien qu’important au vu du trésor découvert sur le site du “Causé”, est peu abondant typologiquement, le catalogue ne comportant que trois séries. Toutes les monnaies “à la tête bouclée du Causé” semblent être taillées au burin.

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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