bga_916576 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Quart de statère d’or au droit oblitéré
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Type : Quart de statère d’or au droit oblitéré
Date: IIe siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 11 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 1,85 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan bien centré. Des faiblesses, légères et localisées. Belle patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de style armoricain à droite, oblitéré par des barres qui s’entrecroisent. Des cordons perlés partent de la chevelure.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à droite ; une rouelle à quatre rayons (?) en dessous.
Commentary
Monnaie intéressante avec un cheval non androcéphale au revers ! Ce quart pourrait être une réduction modulaires des exemplaire DT 205-207. Louis-Pol Délestrée écrit qu’un peuple différent du peuple émetteur a pu défigurer la tête au droit.
Interesting coin with a non-androcephalous horse on the reverse! This quarter could be a modular reduction of the DT 205-207 examples. Louis-Pol Délestrée writes that a people different from the transmitting people could have disfigured the head on the right
Interesting coin with a non-androcephalous horse on the reverse! This quarter could be a modular reduction of the DT 205-207 examples. Louis-Pol Délestrée writes that a people different from the transmitting people could have disfigured the head on the right
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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