bga_547470 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère de billon, classe III
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Price : 200.00 €
Type : Statère de billon, classe III
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,77 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure régulière présentant des faiblesses de frappe. Joli revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection G.L.
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux allongés en grosses mèches se terminant par des S, entourée d’un cordon perlé.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale, bridé à gauche ; au-dessus, l'aurige tient une hampe ; devant le cheval, un rinceau ; sous le cheval, sanglier enseigne à gauche.
Commentary
Poids léger. Métal cristallisé avec deux manques visibles au droit sur la joue et au revers à 1 heure. Ce statère d’un style particulier s’apparente au DT. 2293 (de l’ancienne collection E. Guibourg) qui correspond à la var. 3 de la classe III “au nez droit”.
Lightweight. Crystallized metal with two visible losses on the right side of the cheek and on the reverse at 1 o'clock. This stater of a particular style is similar to DT. 2293 (from the former E. Guibourg collection) which corresponds to var. 3 of class III “with a straight nose”
Lightweight. Crystallized metal with two visible losses on the right side of the cheek and on the reverse at 1 o'clock. This stater of a particular style is similar to DT. 2293 (from the former E. Guibourg collection) which corresponds to var. 3 of class III “with a straight nose”
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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