E-auction 172-106789 - bga_338247 - CORIOSOLITÆ (Area of Corseul, Cotes d'Armor) Statère de billon, classe IVb
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| Estimate : | 220 € |
| Price : | 173 € |
| Maximum bid : | 220 € |
| End of the sale : | 01 August 2016 14:07:00 |
| bidders : | 11 bidders |
Type : Statère de billon, classe IVb
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Brieuc (22)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 6,37 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Statère sur un flan ovale, avec des types centrés mais d’importantes faiblesses de frappe. Patine grise, légèrement concrétionnée au revers
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 réaliste, pointu, l’œil ovale.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale bridé, galopant à droite ; au-dessus, restes de la tête de l'aurige ; entre les jambes, une lyre.
Commentary
Importante faiblesse de frappe au droit et sur l’ensemble du revers. Les exemplaires de cette classe IVb sont souvent d’une fabrication peu soignée.
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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