bga_664918 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère d'or à l'hippocampe - des Sablons
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Price : 4 900.00 €
Type : Statère d'or à l'hippocampe - des Sablons
Date: c. 100-70 BC
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 7,54 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie de grand intérêt, sur un flan un peu court et ovale mais présentant des types centrés et presque complets. Métal de qualité avec quelques éclatements de frappe et une agréable patine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, coiffée d'un hippocampe et entourée de cordons perlés auxquels sont attachées de petites têtes.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale à droite, l'aurige tient le stimulus ; devant le cheval, un vexillum ; génie ailé couché sous le cheval.
Commentary
Ce type de statère à l’hippocampe en cimier est probablement la monnaie armoricaine en or la plus mythique ! Ce type reste rare et manque à la plupart des musées et ne passe qu’exceptionnellement en vente. Selon le MONETA, quarante exemplaires sont néanmoins recensés.
Nous n’en avons eu que trois autres exemplaires (MONNAIES IV n° 612 et 613 et MONNAIES 57, n° 446).
This type of stater with a seahorse crest is probably the most legendary Armorican gold coin! This type remains rare and is missing from most museums and only exceptionally comes up for sale. According to MONETA, forty examples have nevertheless been recorded. We only had three other examples (COINS IV No. 612 and 613 and COINS 57, No. 446)
Nous n’en avons eu que trois autres exemplaires (MONNAIES IV n° 612 et 613 et MONNAIES 57, n° 446).
This type of stater with a seahorse crest is probably the most legendary Armorican gold coin! This type remains rare and is missing from most museums and only exceptionally comes up for sale. According to MONETA, forty examples have nevertheless been recorded. We only had three other examples (COINS IV No. 612 and 613 and COINS 57, No. 446)
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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