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Live auction - bga_578428 - GALLIA - CALETI (Area of Pays de Caux) Denier à l’aigle en forme d’amphore

GALLIA - CALETI (Area of Pays de Caux) Denier à l’aigle en forme d’amphore AU
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Estimate : 800 €
Price : 540 €
Maximum bid : 560 €
End of the sale : 16 June 2020 15:50:15
bidders : 4 bidders
Type : Denier à l’aigle en forme d’amphore
Date: c. 60-50 BC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 1,34 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire avec notamment un beau revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Aigle de face, très stylisé, la tête à gauche.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à gauche, avec la crinière bouletée ; un astre (?) devant la tête et un gros globule entre les jambes.

Commentary


Ce type de denier est exceptionnel et encore mal connu à cause de sa rareté. Recensé dans le Supplément du Nouvel Atlas, les auteurs précisent à son sujet que “plusieurs exemplaires de ce type fruste, de facture malhabile, proviennent des proches environs d’Etretat (Seine-Maritime)”.
J.-M. Doyen a récemment publié tous les exemplaires connus jusqu’alors, avec une tentative de classement (cf. BCEN).
Le type de droit, très énigmatique, a été interprété dans le Nouvel Atlas comme un aigle très stylisé de face. Selon d’autres, il pourrait s’agir d’une ancre accostée de deux hameçons (?).

Historical background


GALLIA - CALETI (Area of Pays de Caux)

(4th - 2nd century BC)

The Calètes, people of Belgium, were sometimes considered Armoricans. They occupied part of the current department of Seine-Maritime with the countries of Caux and Bray. Their neighbors were the Véliocasses, the Bellovaques, of whom they were clients, and the Ambiens. The Calètes would have provided a contingent of ten thousand men to the Belgian coalition under the leadership of the Bellovaques in 57 BC. In 52 BC, they participated with the seven Armorican peoples in sending twenty thousand men for the relief army, destined to deliver Alesia. In 51 BC, they took part in the revolt of the Belgian peoples, led by the Bellovaci. Two of their main oppida were in Bracquemont and Fécamp. In Roman times, their capital was Juliobona, Lillebonne. Caesar (BG. II, 4; VII, 75; VIII, 8). Strabo (G. IV, 1); Pliny (HN. IV, 107). Ptolemy (G. II, 8). Kruta: 70.

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