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Live auction - bga_352609 - SOUTH-WESTERN GAUL Drachme imitation de Rhodé, flan globulaire

SOUTH-WESTERN GAUL Drachme imitation de Rhodé, flan globulaire XF
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Estimate : 1 000 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 30 June 2015 15:14:29
Type : Drachme imitation de Rhodé, flan globulaire
Date: c. 240-220 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 11,5 mm
Weight : 3,70 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan court et épais avec une belle petite tête mais un revers déjà très fruste. Patine grise, un peu poreuse et très légèrement irisée
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête féminine à gauche, stylisée, la chevelure ornementée.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Croix bouletée et cerclée, accostée de chevrons renversés et de lunules.

Commentary


Les drachmes de cette série sont des copies conformes au début et dégénèrent jusqu'à devenir des bouts de métal sur lesquels on distingue à peine le revers. Cet exemplaire est un jalon intéressant dans l’évolution des imitations de Rhodé, avec un flan très court mais particulièrement épais ! Il est à noter que la gravure du coin est adaptée à cette toute petite taille de flan.

Historical background


SOUTH-WESTERN GAUL

(3rd century BC)

The notion of people or tribe seems to disappear with regard to certain attributions when one examines the coinage of imitations of Emporion or Rhodè. If the prototypes are struck beyond the Pyrenees, the imitations were issued on both sides of the mountain range. The early disappearance of R. Boudet (1958-1995) did not allow the latter to establish a corpus of these coins. The finds are not limited to Aquitaine, but are spread over the great West between the Loire and the Pyrenees, i.e. nearly a third of the territory of ancient Gaul.. The finds of imitations of the drachma of Emporion, which seems to have had a wider distribution, are numerous and spread over the whole of the geographical area: from Charnizay in the Indre-et-Loire or Issoudun in the 'Indre to Ruscino in the Pyrénées-Orientales. The Rhodè coin finds are concentrated in Aquitaine and do not go beyond the course of the Garonne and the Dordogne with the treasures of Mouleydier in Dordogne or Mouliets-et-Villemartin in Gironde and as far as Montlaurès in Aude and Foix in Arriège. To whom should these coinages, sometimes very different, which do not present any homogeneity at the level of the typological series be attributed?.

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