bga_410214 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère d’or à la rouelle, avers dégénéré
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Price : 1 300.00 €
Type : Statère d’or à la rouelle, avers dégénéré
Date: IIe siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 7,77 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Agréable monnaie sur un flan court et épais, frappé avec un coin de droit très usé et défectueux, mais un beau revers centré et de frappe vigoureuse. Bel aspect du métal
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Vestiges de tête à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval non androcéphale à droite ; au-dessus, un motif indéterminé ; une rouelle sous le cheval.
Commentary
Bien qu’il ne soit pas possible de classer ce statère à partir de son droit, le style du revers est très proche des monnaies DT. 2105-2107, toutes trois au sanglier en cimier et au cheval non androcéphale. Le motif au-dessus du cheval ne permet malheureusement pas d’affiner le classement de cette monnaie qui est d’un traitement atypique.
Semble être issu des mêmes coins que le bga_331435
.
Although it is not possible to classify this stater from its obverse, the reverse style is very similar to the coins DT. 2105-2107, all three with a boar in crest and a non-androcephalic horse. The motif above the horse unfortunately does not allow for a more precise classification of this coin, which is atypically treated. Seems to come from the same dies as bga_331435
Semble être issu des mêmes coins que le bga_331435
.
Although it is not possible to classify this stater from its obverse, the reverse style is very similar to the coins DT. 2105-2107, all three with a boar in crest and a non-androcephalic horse. The motif above the horse unfortunately does not allow for a more precise classification of this coin, which is atypically treated. Seems to come from the same dies as bga_331435
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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