Live auction - bga_567389 - GALLIA - CALETI (Area of Pays de Caux) Quart de statère aux lignes entremêlées
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| Estimate : | 1 500 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 10 March 2020 15:58:59 |
Type : Quart de statère aux lignes entremêlées
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Metal : gold
Diameter : 13 mm
Weight : 1,92 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique monnaie au droit bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers malgré un décentrage relatif sur la lyre
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Lignes entremêlées.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval aux extrémités bouletées bondissant à gauche ; derrière, les restes de l'aurige avec le timon posé verticalement ; sous le cheval, une lyre couchée à gauche.
Commentary
Cet exemplaire présente un droit très particulier avec une ligne centrale épaisse et des lignes partant de chaque côté. Aucun exemplaire publié ne semble s’associer parfaitement !.
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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