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bga_431734 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Quart de statère de billon

VENETI (Area of Vannes) Quart de statère de billon VF
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Price : 350.00 €
Type : Quart de statère de billon
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 1,11 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Intéressante petite monnaie, sur un flan un peu court et ovale, avec des reliefs assez nets mais une patine cristallisée
Catalogue references :
LT.-  - DT.2304-2305 var. - ABT.-  - MCB.cf. 443  - Sch/L.-  - Sch/D.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux en grosses mèches ; décors en chevrons derrière la tête, un annelet perlé et un esse devant le visage.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale, bridé à gauche ; au-dessus, l'aurige tient une hampe ; sous le cheval, petit sanglier à gauche et devant la croupe, une tête coupée à l’envers.

Commentary

Les quarts de statères armoricains en billon restent rares. Ce type précis correspond à la seconde des deux seules variantes connues pour ces quarts de billon. Notons cependant une petite esse et un annelet perlé devant la tête au droit et une tête coupée renversée devant l’androcéphale au revers..

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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