v34_1278 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Quart de statère d’or DT. 2134 au rameau en cimier
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 2 800.00 €
Estimate : 4 500.00 €
Realised price : 3 106.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 4 125.00 €
Starting price : 2 800.00 €
Estimate : 4 500.00 €
Realised price : 3 106.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 4 125.00 €
Type : Quart de statère d’or DT. 2134 au rameau en cimier
Date: IIe siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 12,8 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 1,85 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Très belle petite monnaie, avec une frappe très légèrement bouchée au droit, mais avec un revers magnifiquement centré, par rapport à l’étroitesse du flan, et de conservation excellente
Catalogue references :
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, l'aurige tient un lien ondulant relié à un étendard qui flotte devant la tête du cheval ; un personnage ailé sous le cheval.
Commentary
Cet exemplaire semble être issu des mêmes coins que le quart de la BN, n° 6894, repris pour illustrer le Nouvel Atlas. Les auteurs proposent une branche de gui (?) pour décrire le cimier. Cette rare monnaie appartient à ce groupe varié de quart sans statère unité connu. Au revers, la roue du char est hors flan, comme sur quasiment tous les quarts vénètes !.
This example appears to come from the same dies as the BN quarter, No. 6894, used to illustrate the New Atlas. The authors suggest a mistletoe branch (?) to describe the crest. This rare coin belongs to this varied group of quarters without a known unit stater. On the reverse, the chariot wheel is off-flan, as on almost all Venetian quarters!
This example appears to come from the same dies as the BN quarter, No. 6894, used to illustrate the New Atlas. The authors suggest a mistletoe branch (?) to describe the crest. This rare coin belongs to this varied group of quarters without a known unit stater. On the reverse, the chariot wheel is off-flan, as on almost all Venetian quarters!
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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