Live auction - bga_493340 - GALLIA - BAÏOCASSES (Area of Bayeux) Statère d’électrum à la lyre
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| Estimate : | 1 800 € |
| Price : | 1 100 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 150 € |
| End of the sale : | 11 September 2018 15:17:44 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Statère d’électrum à la lyre
Date: IIe - Ier siècles AC.
Mint name / Town : Bayeux (14)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 7,02 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Belle monnaie parfaitement centrée au revers. Défaut de métal visible à 12 heures. Joli droit
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à droite, les cheveux en grosses mèches ; une lyre et un cordon perlé dans la chevelure.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval galopant à droite ; une lyre à droite, entre les jambes du cheval ; aurige au-dessus du dos ; vexillum devant la tête.
Commentary
C’est l’un de types les plus rares pour les Baiocasses. Nous n’en avions encore jamais proposé à la vente !.
Historical background
GALLIA - BAÏOCASSES (Area of Bayeux)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Baïocasses or Bodiocasses are not mentioned in Caesar's Gallic Wars. It is Pliny the Elder who speaks of it first. The Baiocasses occupied part of present-day Normandy, the Bessin. Their neighbors were the Unelles, the Viducasses and the Véliocasses. Their main oppidum was Augustodurum (Bayeux). Pliny (HN. IV, 107). Ptolemy (G. II, 8).
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