v32_0844 - GALLIA - SOUTH-WESTERN GAUL - TOLOSATES (Area of Vieille-Toulouse) Drachme “à la tête négroïde”
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Drachme “à la tête négroïde”
Date: IIe-Ier siècles av. J.-C.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14,4 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,50 g.
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire, homogène et particulièrement bien centré au droit. Patine sombre et légèrement brillante
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à gauche, de type négroïde, la chevelure représentée par un rang d’esses reposant sur un rang d’épis en forme d’Y.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Croix bouletée au centre, formée de quatre cantons ornés chacun d'une lunule : annelet au 1er canton, un globule aux 2e, 3e et 4e cantons.
Commentary
Cette drachme a la particularité de présenter un petit globule au bout du menton. Au revers il est difficile de distinguer l’annelet qui peut être au premier ou au second canton.
This drachma has the particularity of having a small globule at the end of the chin. On the reverse it is difficult to distinguish the annulet which can be in the first or second canton
This drachma has the particularity of having a small globule at the end of the chin. On the reverse it is difficult to distinguish the annulet which can be in the first or second canton
Historical background
GALLIA - SOUTH-WESTERN GAUL - TOLOSATES (Area of Vieille-Toulouse)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Tolosates, component of the Volques Tectosages, occupied the region of Tolosa (Old Toulouse). They would have been submitted after 105 BC by Quintus Servilius Cæpio. This episode would be at the origin of the myth of the gold of Toulouse "aurum Tolosanum". Tolosa, their capital was included in the province of Narbonnaise, bordering independent Gaul before the Gallic war. During the Gallic Wars, the Tolosates seem to have remained faithful to the Roman alliance. Sources: Caesar (BG. I, 10; III, 20; VII, 7); Strabo (G. IV, 14).
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