v15_0533 - TURONES (Area of Touraine) Potin “à la tête diabolique”, taureau à droite
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 65.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
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Starting price : 65.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Potin “à la tête diabolique”, taureau à droite
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 3,80 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Droit en très haut relief. Revers assez mou. Patine sombre
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES II, 21 juin 1997, n° 221
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à gauche, avec l'œil en creux, le nez allongé, le menton pointu et les lèvres marquées par un globule. Le crâne est très allongé vers l’arrière.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Taureau cornupète chargeant à droite.
Commentary
Le revers de la classe VIII est caractéristique avec le taureau à droite. F. Barthélémy décrit le taureau du revers comme possédant deux pattes arrière ; sur cet exemplaire, il semble plutôt qu’il ait deux pattes avant.
The reverse of class VIII is characteristic with the bull on the right. F. Barthélémy describes the bull on the reverse as having two hind legs; on this example, it seems rather that it has two front legs.
The reverse of class VIII is characteristic with the bull on the right. F. Barthélémy describes the bull on the reverse as having two hind legs; on this example, it seems rather that it has two front legs.
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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