bga_702823 - TURONES (Area of Touraine) Bronze AGVSSROS au sanglier
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Price : 180.00 €
Type : Bronze AGVSSROS au sanglier
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,34 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie décentrée, la légende est en grande partie lisible au droit. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AGVSSROS.
Obverse description : Tête de Vénus, diadémée à droite, légende devant le visage ; grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Sanglier à droite, sur une ligne d'exergue, avec un épi de blé horizontal au-dessus des soies ; grènetis.
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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