Live auction - bga_349512 - CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Statère de billon, classe VI
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| Estimate : | 750 € |
| Price : | 450 € |
| Maximum bid : | 465 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 March 2015 15:05:01 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Statère de billon, classe VI
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Brieuc (22)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 22,2 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 6,46 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait et joli revers, de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe, complet des deux côtés avec une patine grise un peu granuleuse. Un fin coup de burin oblique au revers
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 25, n° 692 puis de la vente Parsy de novembre 2008
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à droite, chevelure en trois rouleaux, les cheveux divisés en grosses mèches en forme de S, le nez en 2 à l’envers, cordons perlés devant le visage.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale bridé, galopant à droite ; au-dessus, restes de la tête de l'aurige et hampe pointée ; entre les jambes, un sanglier enseigne ; devant le cheval, une barrière.
Commentary
Cette monnaie de la classe VI serait la plus ancienne du monnayage coriosolite. Selon les auteurs du Nouvel Atlas, ce type de statère dériverait de la monnaie n° 690 attribuée aux Vénètes (?).
Historical background
CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Coriosolites were an Armorican people, settled in the current department of Côtes-d'Armor. They had for neighbors the Osismes, the Vénètes, the Namnètes and the Redons. They were a seafaring people whose main port seems to have been Alet. Their name is still preserved today in that of Corseul. They played an important role in trade with insular Britain, took part in the campaign of 57 BC and were subjugated by Crassus. The following year, they again participated in the revolt of the Armoricans under the leadership of the Veneti with the Unelles and the Lexoviens, all crushed by Caesar. In 52 BC, the Coriosolites participated in the contingent of twenty thousand men that the Armoricans sent to free Vercingetorix, besieged in Alesia. Caesar (BG. II, 34; III, 7, 11; VII, 75). Pliny (HN IV, 107) Kruta: 108, 355, 366.
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