bga_217887 - VELIOCASSES (Area of Norman Vexin) Bronze SVTICOS, classe VI au bige
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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 120.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 120.00 €
Type : Bronze SVTICOS, classe VI au bige
Date: c. 50-40 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,62 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Droit complet mais de frappe un peu molle et revers décentré mais de frappe vigoureuse. Patine sombre et légèrement poreuse
Obverse
Obverse legend : SVTICOS.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé à droite, torque au cou, légende devant le visage, grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : RAT[VMAGOS].
Reverse description : Bige galopant à droite, conduit par un aurige, une esse sous le bige et un fouet ou un rinceau au-dessus des rênes.
Commentary
Très belle épigraphie SVTICOS totalement visible au droit.
Very beautiful SVTICOS epigraphy totally visible on the right
Very beautiful SVTICOS epigraphy totally visible on the right
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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