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v41_1583 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Quart de statère d'argent, classe I

VENETI (Area of Vannes) Quart de statère d argent, classe I VF
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
Realised price : 530.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 674.00 €
Type : Quart de statère d'argent, classe I
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 12,5 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 1,54 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan un peu court mais frappe centrée et types relativement complets. Reliefs un peu émoussés, mais encore bien identifiables. Patine grise, légèrement poreuse
Predigree :
Ce quart de statère provient de la trouvaille de Jersey dit “trouvaille du Catillon”. Il fut revendu par Chris Rudd

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux en grosses mèches ; décors en chevrons derrière la tête.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale, bridé à droite ; au-dessus, l'aurige tient une hampe ; sous le cheval, petit personnage couché à droite.

Commentary


Ce quart de statère est seulement la seconde monnaie divisionnaire en argent ou de billon des Vénètes que nous proposions. En admettant que le classement des statères soit à appliquer par extension aux quarts de statères, cet exemplaire avec cheval androcéphale à droite appartient d’office à la classe I et le motif entre les jambes du cheval est obligatoirement un petit personnage couché à droite (?).
Ce type semble particulièrement rare ; toutes les publications depuis 1953 jusqu’au récent Nouvel Atlas semblent n’utiliser qu’un seul exemplaire (maintenant conservé à Rennes).
This quarter stater is only the second silver or billon divisional coin of the Veneti that we have proposed. Assuming that the classification of staters is to be applied by extension to quarter staters, this example with an androcephalic horse on the right automatically belongs to class I and the motif between the horse's legs is necessarily a small figure lying on the right (?). This type seems particularly rare; all publications from 1953 until the recent New Atlas seem to use only a single example (now kept in Rennes)

Historical background


VENETI (Area of Vannes)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Vénètes were an Armorican people who resided in the current department of Morbihan and whose capital was Vannes. They were as good sailors as they were excellent traders and controlled both the pewter trade and its export between Brittany and Rome. They had a powerful fleet and many coastal ports. The Vénètes took the head of the Armorican coalition which opposed Caesar in 57 BC They were submitted by Crassus. The following year, in 56 BC, the Venetian fleet met that of Caesar, in the Loire estuary or in the Gulf of Morbihan and was totally destroyed. They sent a relief contingent to help clear Vercingetorix besieged in Alesia during the second revolt. After the war, the Vénètes lost their political power, but kept an economic role, in particular in the commercial relations with Brittany. Caesar (BG. II, 34; III, 7, 9, 11, 16, 17; VII, 75). Livy (Ep. 104). Strabo (G. IV, 4, 1). Pliny (HN. IV, 107); Ptolemy (G. II, 8).

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