bga_115110 - VELIOCASSES (Area of Norman Vexin) Bronze au sanglier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 130.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 130.00 €
Type : Bronze au sanglier
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Metal : bronze
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie complète et très bien frappée. Légère patine marron, piquée au revers
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Commentary
Ce bronze est très rare et surtout avec une telle qualité de frappe sur flan large.
This bronze is very rare and especially with such quality of striking on a wide flan
This bronze is very rare and especially with such quality of striking on a wide flan
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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