bga_1033598 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère d’or au sanglier enseigne
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Type : Statère d’or au sanglier enseigne
Date: IIe siècle avant J.-C.
Metal : gold
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,23 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Belle monnaie sur flan centré, à la frappe un peu molle mais présentant de jolis détails. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux en grosses mèches, surmontée d'un sanglier à droite ; de la tête partent quatre cordons perlés (terminés chacun par une petite tête).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale, bridé à droite ; au-dessus, l'aurige tient un lien ondulant relié à un étendard qui flotte devant la tête du cheval ; une roue à rayons sous la queue du cheval et un personnage ailé sous le cheval.
Commentary
L'exemplaire n° 6827 de la BN est utilisé comme illustration, tant dans les articles de J.-B. Colbert-de-Beaulieu que plus récemment dans le Nouvel Atlas ou le Cahier Ernest Babelon sur l'Or gaulois.
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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