Live auction - bga_1049300 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère de billon, classe V à la roue
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Live starting : Type : Statère de billon, classe V à la roue
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,56 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Très beau statère sur flan ovale, avec un magnifique revers complet. De légères faiblesses ainsi que des éclatements sont à noter en bords de flan. Belle patine grise, la monnaie semble avoir une haute teneur en argent
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Predigree :
Monnaie provenant de Thierry Parsy Numismatique
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 ; le cou marqué par un Y.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale à gauche, l'aurige tient les rênes ; devant le cheval, un rinceau ; roue à huit rayons avec moyeu central sous le cheval.
Commentary
Cette monnaie illustre la référence 2300 du Nouvel Atlas des Monnaies Gauloises.
This coin illustrates the reference 2300 of the New Atlas of Gallic Coins
This coin illustrates the reference 2300 of the New Atlas of Gallic Coins
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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