bga_719409 - GALLIA - BITURIGES CUBI (Area of Bourges) Denier au sanglier et à la croisette
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Type : Denier au sanglier et à la croisette
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Bourges (18)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 1,89 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie décentrée au droit, avec un joli revers détaillé. Patine hétérogène
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche ; les cheveux disposés en trois mèches. Grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval sexué libre au pas à gauche ; au-dessus un sanglier ; sous le poitrail, une croisette. Grènetis.
Commentary
Pour ce revers au sanglier, qui constitue le Type IV du Nouvel Atlas, il y a deux symboles différents entre les jambes du cheval ; une croisette, comme sur cet exemplaire, et un annelet.
Historical background
GALLIA - BITURIGES CUBI (Area of Bourges)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The territory of the Bituriges Cubes extended over part of Bourbonnais, Touraine and Berry. Their capital was the oppidum of Avaricum (Bourges). The Loire separated them from the Aedui and the Carnutes. In 52 BC, they supported Vercingetorix who pushed them to practice the scorched earth technique. They thus destroyed more than twenty oppida, but refused the same fate to their capital, Avaricum (Bourges). Caesar came to besiege the oppidum, defended by thirty thousand Bituriges and ten thousand allies. The city was taken and set on fire, only eight hundred soldiers were able to escape, while the garrison and the population were massacred. Nevertheless, the Bituriges would still have provided a contingent of twelve thousand men to the relief army of the Gallic coalition, during the siege of Alesia. At the beginning of 51 BC, Caesar led a new campaign among the Bituriges who submitted very quickly..
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