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Live auction - bga_587388 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère d’or à la petite tête nue

VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère d’or à la petite tête nue VF/XF
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Estimate : 1 200 €
Price : 830 €
Maximum bid : 838 €
End of the sale : 16 June 2020 15:40:53
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Statère d’or à la petite tête nue
Date: IIe siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 7,47 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Coin malheureusement usé et largement bouché au droit mais beau revers et bel or bien jaune
Catalogue references :
LT.6879 var. - BN.-  - DT.2108

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.

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 ; une roue à rayons sous la queue du cheval et un personnage (ailé) devant le cheval, un rinceau.

Commentary

Type que nous présentons pour la première fois à la vente !.

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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