v25_0574 - GALLIA - SOUTH-WESTERN GAUL - TOLOSATES (Area of Vieille-Toulouse) Drachme “à la tête négroïde”
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 160.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 160.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Drachme “à la tête négroïde”
Date: IIe-Ier siècle av. J.-C
Metal : silver
Diameter : 12,10 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 3,24 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan très étroit et très épais, mais quand même bien centré tant au droit qu’au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à gauche, de type négroïde, la chevelure représentée par un rang d’esses couchées sur un rang d’esses droites.
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
Le cou est particulièrement élancé, avec sa base dédoublée. Au revers, la croix est bouletée par un globule inhabituellement important par rapport aux globules des 2e, 3e et 4e cantons.
The neck is particularly slender, with its doubled base. On the reverse, the cross is rounded by an unusually large globule compared to the globules of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th cantons
The neck is particularly slender, with its doubled base. On the reverse, the cross is rounded by an unusually large globule compared to the globules of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th cantons
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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