E-auction 95-49441 - bga_239915 - TURONES (Area of Touraine) Potin “à la tête diabolique” et à la croisette
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| Estimate : | 25 € |
| Price : | 4 € |
| Maximum bid : | 10 € |
| End of the sale : | 09 February 2015 15:10:30 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Potin “à la tête diabolique” et à la croisette
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,23 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Beau petit potin, complet et particulièrement bien venu avec de très beaux reliefs. Patine brune, légèrement concrétionnée par endroits
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection M. G
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à gauche, avec des restes de chevelure dont les mèches sont en forme d’esses.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Taureau cornupète chargeant à gauche, la patte avant bifide ; au-dessus, une croisette.
Commentary
La classe I est caractéristique avec sa croisette au-dessus du taureau, d’un module moyen de 14 mm.
Cet exemplaire correspond à cette classe, par son module et son style avec la tête bouclée, et la croisette est bien visible au-dessus du taureau !.
Class I is characteristic with its cross above the bull, with an average module of 14 mm. This specimen corresponds to this class, by its module and its style with the curly head, and the cross is clearly visible above the bull!
Cet exemplaire correspond à cette classe, par son module et son style avec la tête bouclée, et la croisette est bien visible au-dessus du taureau !.
Class I is characteristic with its cross above the bull, with an average module of 14 mm. This specimen corresponds to this class, by its module and its style with the curly head, and the cross is clearly visible above the bull!
Historical background
TURONES (Area of Touraine)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The people of the Turons, settled on the Loire, left their name to Tours and Touraine. They are quoted several times in Caesar's Commentaries. They seem to have grown in importance after the disappearance of the Arverne empire in 121 BC. Like the Pictons, the Turons provided eight thousand men for the relief army which was to release Alesia. Their main oppidum seems to have been placed near the site of Amboise. Caesar (BG. II, 35; VII, 4, 75; VIII, 46).
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