Live auction - bga_780584 - GALLIA - BITURIGES CUBI (Area of Bourges) Statère ABVCATOS à l’aigle
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| Estimate : | 4 500 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 06 December 2022 15:53:11 |
Type : Statère ABVCATOS à l’aigle
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Bourges (18)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 6,94 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire bien centré avec des faiblesses. Joli revers. Patine de collection
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, la chevelure en belles grosse mèches bouclées.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ABVCATOS.
Reverse description : Cheval bondissant à gauche, un aigle les ailes déployées au-dessus de la croupe et trois annelets posés en triangle entre les jambes ; légende entre les jambes antérieures et postérieures.
Commentary
Les statères bituriges de la classe I avec ABVCATOS sont plus rares que ceux de la classe II avec ABVDOS. Si des drachmes et des bronzes sont connus avec la légende ABVDOS, ce n’est pas le cas pour la légende ABVCATOS.
Ces statères sont de deux types selon que la bouche est ornée d’une volute ou pas ; cet exemplaire semble avoir un champ libre devant le visage.
Ces statères sont de deux types selon que la bouche est ornée d’une volute ou pas ; cet exemplaire semble avoir un champ libre devant le visage.
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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