v18_0885 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère d'argent, classe IV
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 50.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 121.00 €
Number of bids : 11
Maximum bid : 132.00 €
Starting price : 50.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 121.00 €
Number of bids : 11
Maximum bid : 132.00 €
Type : Statère d'argent, classe IV
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 4,08 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur un flan irrégulier. Flan cassé, mais type parfaitement identifiable et néanmoins presque complet. Patine grise à reflets verdâtres
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Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Terisse
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux allongés en grosses mèches se terminant par des S, entourée d’un cordon perlé.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale, bridé à gauche ; au-dessus, l'aurige tient une hampe ; devant le cheval, un rinceau ; sous le cheval, sanglier enseigne à gauche.
Commentary
A la différence de l'exemplaire MONNAIES XV, n° 747, sur lequel le grènetis était bien visible au revers, cet exemplaire ne semble pas avoir été frappé avec un coin de revers dont le type auarait été entouré d'un grènetis.
Unlike the example COINS XV, n° 747, on which the graining was clearly visible on the reverse, this example does not appear to have been struck with a reverse die whose type would have been surrounded by graining.
Unlike the example COINS XV, n° 747, on which the graining was clearly visible on the reverse, this example does not appear to have been struck with a reverse die whose type would have been surrounded by graining.
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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