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bga_763635 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Quart de statère d’or au personnage ailé, var. 3

VENETI (Area of Vannes) Quart de statère d’or au personnage ailé, var. 3 AU/XF
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Price : 850.00 €
Type : Quart de statère d’or au personnage ailé, var. 3
Date: IIe siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 1,86 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée, avec une très jolie tête au droit bien détaillée
Catalogue references :
LT.6838 =DT.2129 - DT.2129-2130  - Sch/D.cf. 223  - Z.cf.233-234  - Sch/L.867

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux en grosses mèches ; de la tête partent quatre cordons perlés, terminés chacun par une petite tête, un rameau en guise de cimier au-dessus de la tête, entouré de deux cordons perlés.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale, bridé à droite ; au-dessus, un aurige ; un étendard qui flotte devant le cheval ; un personnage ailé sous le cheval.

Commentary

Ce quart de statère a trois globules posés en triangle en cimier, comme le DT. 2129. Le revers présente un animal ailé (largement hors flan mais identifiable) sous le cheval.

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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