bga_655575 - VELIOCASSES (Area of Norman Vexin) Bronze DVCOMARO / RATVMACIA, à l’aigle
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Price : 300.00 €
Type : Bronze DVCOMARO / RATVMACIA, à l’aigle
Date: c. 50-40 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 2,38 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Coments on the condition:
Bronze assez mal frappé au droit, revers magnifique sur sa partie haute, avec une agréable patine verte mais concrétions sur le bas de l'aigle
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la vente CGB VSO 19 n°482
Obverse
Obverse legend : [DVCOMARO].
Obverse description : Tête diadémé à droite, une mèche de cheveux en volute sur la nuque. Légende devant le visage.
Reverse
Reverse legend : RATVMACI[OS].
Reverse description : Aigle à gauche, les ailes déployées, face à un foudre. Légende au-dessus de l’aigle.
Commentary
La seule monnaie publiée avec ce type de revers et une légende lisible est celui qui illustre le “Nouvel Atlas”, qui fut publié en 1998, dans les Cahiers Numismatiques. La légende de notre exemplaire est bien plus nette et complète. Le droit avec une tête à droite semble complètement inédit.
The only coin published with this type of reverse and a legible legend is the one illustrating the “New Atlas,” which was published in 1998 in the Cahiers Numismatiques. The legend of our example is much clearer and more complete. The obverse with a head to the right seems completely new.
The only coin published with this type of reverse and a legible legend is the one illustrating the “New Atlas,” which was published in 1998 in the Cahiers Numismatiques. The legend of our example is much clearer and more complete. The obverse with a head to the right seems completely new.
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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