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bga_182852 - VELIOCASSES (Area of Norman Vexin) Bronze au sanglier

VELIOCASSES (Area of Norman Vexin) Bronze au sanglier VF
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Price : 84.00 €
Type : Bronze au sanglier
Date: c. 50-40 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 2,25 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Beau petit bronze frappé sur un flan relativement large et allongé. Droit et revers complets
Catalogue references :
LT.8466 var. - DT.689  - Sch/GB.131  - Z.-  - Sch/L.-  - Sch/SM.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête masculine à droite, le cou très fort ; un sanglier devant la bouche et une tête de serpent (?) devant le front ; double grènetis autour de l’ensemble.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Sanglier enseigne à droite ; une rouelle entre les pattes et un animal stylisé (oiseau ?) sous le groin ; un annelet au-dessus de l’oreille ; double grènetis autour de l’ensemble.

Commentary

Ce bronze est excessivement rare. Les éléments secondaires du droit comme du revers sont assez difficiles à interpréter. Le sanglier devant le visage se retrouve sur le bronze DVNICCOS (DT. 2440) attribué aux Aulerques Eburovices.

Historical background

VELIOCASSES (Area of Norman Vexin)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Véliocasses, people of Belgian Gaul, lived in the Norman Vexin located in the current department of Seine-Maritime. Their neighbors were the Lexovians and the Aulerci Éburovices, with the Seine as their border, and on the other side the Parisii, the Calètes and the Bellovaques. They participated in the Belgian coalition of 57 BC, led by the Bellovaques and provided a contingent of ten thousand men. But in 52 BC, for the relief army to release Vercingetorix besieged in Alesia, they only gave three thousand men. The following year, in 51 BC, they took part for the last time in the coalition of the Belgians in revolt under the leadership of the Bellovaques. Their main oppidum was Rouen (Rotomagus). Caesar (BG. II, 4; VII, 75; VIII, 7); Pliny (HN. IV). Ptolemy (G. II, 8). Kruta: 366.

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