bga_116683 - TURONES (Area of Touraine) Potin “à la tête diabolique”
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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 18.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 18.00 €
Type : Potin “à la tête diabolique”
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Metal : potin
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie homogène, avec un droit un peu mou, mais un revers de bons reliefs
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Commentary
Revers particulièrement bien net. Tête très stylisée et simplifiée au droit.
Particularly clean reverse. Very stylized and simplified head on the right
Particularly clean reverse. Very stylized and simplified head on the right
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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