bga_273623 - VELIOCASSES (Area of Norman Vexin) Bronze SVTICOS, classe V à la petite tête de face
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 115.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 115.00 €
Type : Bronze SVTICOS, classe V à la petite tête de face
Date: c. 50-40 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 2,74 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bronze bien identifiable pour ce type rare ; le droit est assez net mais le revers est incomplet avec une patine très hétérogène
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : SVTICOS.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé à droite, un collier de perles au cou, légende devant le visage, grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : [VELIOCAOI].
Reverse description : Cheval galopant à droite, une petite tête de face au-dessus de la croupe du cheval et une fleur au-dessous du cheval, une amphore renversée sous la patte arrière, double ligne de zigzag derrière la queue.
Commentary
La légende SVTICOS est presque complète au droit, mais VELIOCAOI est complètement hors flan au revers.
The legend SVTICOS is almost complete on the obverse, but VELIOCAOI is completely off-flank on the reverse
The legend SVTICOS is almost complete on the obverse, but VELIOCAOI is completely off-flank on the reverse
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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