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v15_0276 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme au cheval, “Courantillos”, ANTIIIOS/COVRA

GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme au cheval, “Courantillos”, ANTIIIOS/COVRA AU
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 650.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 725.00 €
Type : Drachme au cheval, “Courantillos”, ANTIIIOS/COVRA
Date: c. 121-52 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,87 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage. Fortement décentré au revers sur la tête et le cou du cheval
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Theodor Voltz, Auctiones 25, 19-21 juin 1995, n° 1165. Monnaie illustrée dans BOUDEAU II, à la page 58, "Monnaies gauloises en argent"

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée allongée à droite avec les cheveux bouclés.

Reverse


Reverse legend : COVR[A]/ ANTILLO[S].
Reverse description : Cheval sexué galopant à droite.

Commentary


Flan quadrangulaire taillé au burin. Le grènetis de deux exemplaires juxtaposés est bien visible sur cette drachme. Il présente donc une singularité de fabrication. Au droit, devant le visage principal, on découvre l’arrière d’une chevelure ce qui implique que la lame de métal a été frappée deux fois successives, puis découpée. La technique même de fabrication des monnaies à la croix explique ce “chevauchement” de deux empreintes.
Quadrangular flan cut with a burin. The graining of two juxtaposed examples is clearly visible on this drachma. It therefore presents a manufacturing singularity. On the right, in front of the main face, we discover the back of a head of hair, which implies that the metal blade was struck twice successively, then cut. The very technique of manufacturing cross coins explains this “overlapping” of two impressions

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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