v15_1018 - VELIOCASSES (Area of Norman Vexin) Bronze SVTICOS, classe III à la tête casquée
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
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Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Bronze SVTICOS, classe III à la tête casquée
Date: c. 50-40 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,21 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Patine noire brillante. Flan irrégulier et traces de coulée
Catalogue references :
LT.7370 - BN.7370-7571 - RIG.271 - ABT.292 - Sch/L.- - Sch/SM.- - Sch/GB.613-614 série 164 - DT.650 série 84 - BMCC.12
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES V, 12/12/1998, n° 616
Obverse
Obverse legend : SVTI[COS].
Obverse description : Tête casquée à gauche, protège nuque enroulé, deux feuilles (de fougère ?) opposées derrière la tête, légende devant le visage, grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval bridé galopant à gauche ; au-dessus, un rameau ; à l'exergue, colonne entre deux annelets centrés.
Commentary
Cet exemplaire a la particularité d’avoir les deux feuilles bien visibles au droit derrière la tête. Au revers, le rinceau au-dessus du cheval est accosté de deux éléments ; à gauche, une sorte d’esse (une lune est visible sur l’exemplaire LA TOUR 7370) et à droite, une étoile (partiellement hors flan) qui ne semble visible sur aucun autre exemplaire publié.
This example has the particularity of having the two leaves clearly visible on the right behind the head. On the reverse, the scroll above the horse is flanked by two elements; on the left, a sort of esse (a moon is visible on the example LA TOUR 7370) and on the right, a star (partially off-flan) which does not seem to be visible on any other published example
This example has the particularity of having the two leaves clearly visible on the right behind the head. On the reverse, the scroll above the horse is flanked by two elements; on the left, a sort of esse (a moon is visible on the example LA TOUR 7370) and on the right, a star (partially off-flan) which does not seem to be visible on any other published example
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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