Live auction - bga_1065251 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Quart de statère d’or au sanglier en cimier
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| Estimate : | 2 000 € |
| Price : | 1 000 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 000 € |
| End of the sale : | 02 December 2025 15:14:30 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Quart de statère d’or au sanglier en cimier
Date: IIe siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 11,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,86 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Joli petit quart sur flan court et centré, présentant des faiblesses et une usure régulière. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux en grosses mèches, un sanglier en cimier ; de la tête partent des cordons perlés enroulés autour de la tête.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale à droite ; au-dessus, une victoire stylisée ; un petit personnage ailé entre les jambes.
Commentary
Les quarts des Vénètes sont très rares ; cet exemplaire est identifiable avec le sanglier en cimier au droit .
The Veneti quarters are very rare; this example is identifiable with the boar in crest on the obverse
The Veneti quarters are very rare; this example is identifiable with the boar in crest on the obverse
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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