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bga_449313 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère de billon, classe III - au nez droit

VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère de billon, classe III - au nez droit VF
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Price : 400.00 €
Type : Statère de billon, classe III - au nez droit
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 20,4 mm
Weight : 6,03 g.
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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


Le style de ce statère s’apparente au DT. 2291 qui correspond à la var. 1 du Nouvel Atlas et à la classe IIIb de K. Gruel.

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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