v31_0737 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - VOLCÆ TECTOSAGES (Area of Toulouse) Drachme de style hybride entre “cubiste et romanisé”, S. 57
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 520.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 520.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Drachme de style hybride entre “cubiste et romanisé”, S. 57
Date: IIe siècle av. J.-C
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16,3 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,55 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan irrégulier et un peu court, mais frappe centrée avec les types du droit et du revers presque complets. Droit de frappe molle et revers bien net. Fine patine grise
Predigree :
Cette monnaie provient de la collection de G. Savès
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche ; la joue étroite et le menton en galoche, le nez fort ; chevelure retombant sur l'oreille avec des mèches qui se rejoignent en chignon derrière la nuque ; un collier de perles à la base du cou ; deux dauphins stylisés devant la bouche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Croix formée de quatre cantons ornés chacun d'une lunule : balle de fronde aux 1er et 2e cantons, une hache au 3e et un pendant en ellipse au 4e canton.
Commentary
Ce type est toujours de poids lourd, autour de 3,5 grammes. Bien que typologiquement proche des monnaies cubistes, avec un revers immobilisé, la métrologie les rapproche plutôt des monnaies dites "languedociennes".
Cette drachme semble être issue des mêmes coins que la drachme n° 587 de MONNAIES 29.
Le classement de G. Savès entre les n° 55 et 57 semble assez discutable ; le revers est le même et les types de droit sont sensiblement identiques ; des liaisons de coins semblent même possibles entre ces deux séries distinctes (n° 55 de la série XIII et n° 57 de la série XIV). Nous conservons néanmoins le classement de ces drachmes en S. 57, tel que l'inscrivit G. Savès lorsqu'il répertoria sa collection.
This type is always heavy, around 3.5 grams. Although typologically close to Cubist coins, with an immobilized reverse, metrology brings them closer to the so-called \\\"Languedoc\\\" coins. This drachma seems to come from the same dies as drachma no. 587 of MONNAIES 29. G. Savès' classification between nos. 55 and 57 seems rather questionable; the reverse is the same and the obverse types are substantially identical; die links even seem possible between these two distinct series (no. 55 of series XIII and no. 57 of series XIV). We nevertheless retain the classification of these drachmas in S. 57, as recorded by G. Savès when he listed his collection
Cette drachme semble être issue des mêmes coins que la drachme n° 587 de MONNAIES 29.
Le classement de G. Savès entre les n° 55 et 57 semble assez discutable ; le revers est le même et les types de droit sont sensiblement identiques ; des liaisons de coins semblent même possibles entre ces deux séries distinctes (n° 55 de la série XIII et n° 57 de la série XIV). Nous conservons néanmoins le classement de ces drachmes en S. 57, tel que l'inscrivit G. Savès lorsqu'il répertoria sa collection.
This type is always heavy, around 3.5 grams. Although typologically close to Cubist coins, with an immobilized reverse, metrology brings them closer to the so-called \\\"Languedoc\\\" coins. This drachma seems to come from the same dies as drachma no. 587 of MONNAIES 29. G. Savès' classification between nos. 55 and 57 seems rather questionable; the reverse is the same and the obverse types are substantially identical; die links even seem possible between these two distinct series (no. 55 of series XIII and no. 57 of series XIV). We nevertheless retain the classification of these drachmas in S. 57, as recorded by G. Savès when he listed his collection
Historical background
GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - VOLCÆ TECTOSAGES (Area of Toulouse)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The people of the Volques Tectosages (people who seek a roof) are one of the three main components of the Galatians who ravaged Greece and Asia Minor between 281 and 277 BC. -VS. Legend has it that the Volques Tectosages who migrated to Languedoc participated in the sack of Delphi and seized part of the treasures of the temple of Apollo at Delphi (at the origin of the gold of the Tectosages "aurum Tolosanum" ) and transported it to Tolosates (Vieille-Toulouse), their capital. In fact, the Volques Tectosages would come from Bohemia and would have emigrated during the 3rd century AD.. They nevertheless took part in the Danubian expeditions which led the Celts to the coasts of the Aegean, the Bosphorus and the Black Sea.. Mercenaries, they served the Carthaginians during the Punic Wars and were perhaps at the origin of the revolt of the mercenaries which almost took the Phoenician colony. From the Danube, they passed into Cisalpine Gaul (Italy) where they enlisted as mercenaries and are better known under the name of Gesates before passing into Gaul and settling in the South-West, in Aquitaine. The Volques Tectosages were certainly the most powerful people of Aquitaine. Quintus Servilius Cæpio who crushed the Volque coalition in 105 BC. -VS. would have seized "the gold of Toulouse", fruit of the plundering of the temple of Apollo of Delphi that the Tectosages would have repatriated with them before installing it in Tolosa. To have seized this treasure, he would then have known only misfortune! Sources: Cicero (Pro Fonteio 12), Caesar (BG. VI, 24), Strabo (G. IV, 1 and 13), Pliny (HN. III, 33), Ptolemy (G. II, 10), Kruta (71-72, 250-251, 253, 262, 265, 268, 275, 302-304, 306-307, 309-310, 323, 338, 343, 349, 376, 763, 865 ).
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