Live auction - bga_1145879 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme au cheval, “Courantillos”, ANTIIIOS/COVRA
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Live starting : Type : Drachme au cheval, “Courantillos”, ANTIIIOS/COVRA
Date: c. 121-52 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18,50 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,87 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Superbe drachme, avec un droit exceptionnel bien que doublement frappé. Au revers, la quasi totalité de la légende est lisible. Patine grise de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée allongée à droite avec les cheveux bouclés.
Reverse
Reverse legend : [C]OVRA/ [AN]TILLOS.
Reverse description : Cheval sexué galopant à droite.
Commentary
Type rarissime.
Very rare type
Very rare type
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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