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E-auction 39-14926 - bga_209365 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - VOLCÆ TECTOSAGES (Area of Toulouse) Obole “à la tête cubiste”

GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - VOLCÆ TECTOSAGES (Area of Toulouse) Obole “à la tête cubiste” VF/VF
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Estimate : 150 €
Price : 31 €
Maximum bid : 33 €
End of the sale : 13 January 2014 15:12:30
bidders : 7 bidders
Type : Obole “à la tête cubiste”
Date: IIe siècle av. J.-C
Metal : silver
Diameter : 9,00 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 0,53 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très belle petite monnaie frappée sur un flan un peu court, avec un droit complet bien qu’un peu mou et un revers presque complet. Patine grise de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection A.C.G. et de la collection de Mme. T. dispersée par A. Weil à Évreux le 15 janvier 2006

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, l'œil de face, la chevelure faite de mèches pleines ; l’oreille marquée et vestiges des dauphins en bord de flan (?).

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Croix bouletée au centre, formée de quatre cantons, chacun orné d'une lunule ; une hache pleine au 3e canton.

Commentary


Bien que les divisionnaires à la croix soient de mieux en mieux connues, ces monnaies restent très rares et difficiles à classer. Cet exemplaire, de par le style de la tête semble devoir être rapproché des drachmes S. 57 et 269 et suivantes. Le revers avec des lunules correspondrait plus aux monnaies dites “cubistes et romanisées” qu’aux monnaies dites “languedociennes”.

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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