Live auction - bga_277220 - GALLIA BELGICA - SUESSIONES (Area of Soissons) Denier au lion, “type de Villeneuve-Saint-Germain”, frappé sur un denier éduen
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| Estimate : | 900 € |
| Price : | no bid |
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| End of the sale : | 30 June 2015 15:34:01 |
Type : Denier au lion, “type de Villeneuve-Saint-Germain”, frappé sur un denier éduen
Date: c. 70 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Denier frappé sur un flan large, avec un superbe avers mais un revers un peu mou. Patine grise et poreuse, de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, le nez proéminent et la chevelure en mèches chevronnées tirées en arrière.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Reverse description : Lion à gauche, avec un sanglier à gauche sur son dos.
Commentary
Pour une surfrappe, ce rare denier est particulièrement intéressant, avec la tête bien nette de la classe I de Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (variante aux annelets) et aussi le cheval éduen bien net derrière la tête.
Le revers est moins bien frappé avec le type de Villeneuve-Saint-Germain complet bien qu’un peu mou, mais avec la tête casquée éduenne décentrée, visible au-dessus du lion. Le nez, le casque et la visière du casque sont en bord de flan entre 12 et 3 heures.
Le coin de droit est assez caractéristique avec les annelets devant le visage ; il est probable que ce soit le même coin qui ait frappé le denier n° 8 ainsi que le n° 34 de la classe II au bige.
Un autre denier de Villeneuve-Saint-Germain a été frappé sur un dénier éduen ; le n° 4 page 250 (mais très peu net).
For an overstrike, this rare denarius is particularly interesting, with the very clear head of the class I of Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (variant with ringlets) and also the very clear Aedui horse behind the head. The reverse is less well struck with the complete Villeneuve-Saint-Germain type although a little soft, but with the off-center Aedui helmeted head, visible above the lion. The nose, helmet and helmet visor are on the edge of the blank between 12 and 3 o'clock. The obverse die is quite characteristic with the ringlets in front of the face; it is probable that it is the same coin which struck denier n° 8 as well as n° 34 of class II at the bige. Another denier from Villeneuve-Saint-Germain was struck on an Aedui denier; n° 4 page 250 (but very unclear)
Le revers est moins bien frappé avec le type de Villeneuve-Saint-Germain complet bien qu’un peu mou, mais avec la tête casquée éduenne décentrée, visible au-dessus du lion. Le nez, le casque et la visière du casque sont en bord de flan entre 12 et 3 heures.
Le coin de droit est assez caractéristique avec les annelets devant le visage ; il est probable que ce soit le même coin qui ait frappé le denier n° 8 ainsi que le n° 34 de la classe II au bige.
Un autre denier de Villeneuve-Saint-Germain a été frappé sur un dénier éduen ; le n° 4 page 250 (mais très peu net).
For an overstrike, this rare denarius is particularly interesting, with the very clear head of the class I of Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (variant with ringlets) and also the very clear Aedui horse behind the head. The reverse is less well struck with the complete Villeneuve-Saint-Germain type although a little soft, but with the off-center Aedui helmeted head, visible above the lion. The nose, helmet and helmet visor are on the edge of the blank between 12 and 3 o'clock. The obverse die is quite characteristic with the ringlets in front of the face; it is probable that it is the same coin which struck denier n° 8 as well as n° 34 of class II at the bige. Another denier from Villeneuve-Saint-Germain was struck on an Aedui denier; n° 4 page 250 (but very unclear)
Historical background
GALLIA BELGICA - SUESSIONES (Area of Soissons)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Suessions were an important people of the Belgians, confined on the Aisne in the territory of the province of Soissonnais. They had for neighbor the Remi, the Lingones, the Senones, the Parisii, the Bellovaci and the Ambiens.. According to Caesar, the two peoples Remes and Suessions, before the Gallic Wars, had the same laws and the same leaders. They had for customers the Meldes, the Silvanectes and the Viromanduens. Diviciacos, one of their kings, would have reigned as far as Brittany. Galba, his successor, commanded the coalition of rebel Belgians in 57 BC. -VS. with a contingent of fifty thousand men. The Suessions and their Bellovaci allies were defeated. Galba had to deliver his two sons as hostages to the Romans. They provided a contingent of five thousand men for the relief army in 52 BC. -VS. They were placed under the authority of the Remes after this date. In 51 BC. -VS. , the members of the Belgian coalition were to first attack the Suessions. Ruled by Corréos and Commios, the Belgic peoples were finally crushed by the Romans. Their main oppidum was Noviodunum (Soissons). Caesar (BG. II, 3, 4, 12, 13; VI, 35; VII, 75; VIII, 6). Kruta: 69.
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