Live auction - bga_623524 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère de billon, classe IV, variété à l’ocelle
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| Estimate : | 1 500 € |
| Price : | 950 € |
| Maximum bid : | 950 € |
| End of the sale : | 08 December 2020 16:06:35 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Statère de billon, classe IV, variété à l’ocelle
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 5,29 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large avec un très beau droit et une magnifique patine
Catalogue references :
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 ; le cou marqué par un Y et la joue d’une ocelle.
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
Intéressante variante au droit avec l’ocelle sur la joue. Ce type semble jusqu’ici totalement inédit. Cette monnaie fera l’objet d’un article dans les mois à venir par G. Fontenoy dans les cahiers de la SBNH.
Interesting variant on the obverse with the ocellus on the cheek. This type appears to be completely new until now. This coin will be the subject of an article in the coming months by G. Fontenoy in the SBNH notebooks
Interesting variant on the obverse with the ocellus on the cheek. This type appears to be completely new until now. This coin will be the subject of an article in the coming months by G. Fontenoy in the SBNH notebooks
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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