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v57_0440 - EDUENS, ÆDUI (BIBRACTE, Area of the Mont-Beuvray) Denier VIIPOTAL

EDUENS, ÆDUI (BIBRACTE, Area of the Mont-Beuvray) Denier VIIPOTAL AU
MONNAIES 57 (2013)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
Realised price : 250.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 335.00 €
Type : Denier VIIPOTAL
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Autun (71)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,07 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Denier sur un flan large, avec un très beau revers mais un avers légèrement décentré sur le dessus de la tête. Frappe vigoureuse, avec de très beaux reliefs. Fine patine grise et brillante, comme astiquée anciennement
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste féminin diadémé et drapé à gauche ; grènetis.

Reverse


Reverse legend : VIIPOTAL.
Reverse description : Guerrier gaulois debout de face, vêtu militairement, tenant de la main droite une lance et un sanglier enseigne et tenant de la main gauche un bouclier oblong ; grènetis.

Commentary


L'attribution des deniers de cette série aux Éduens est désormais bien acceptée. Le revers de cet exemplaire est particulièrement net et complet avec une belle légende VIIPOTAL. Sur la vingtaine de deniers VIIPOTAL que nous avons eu, celui-ci est le plus lourd et le seul à dépasser les deux grammes !.

Historical background


EDUENS, ÆDUI (BIBRACTE, Area of the Mont-Beuvray)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Aedui (Aedui), which could be translated as the "Ardent", were certainly, after the Arverni, the most important people of Gaul. Their territory extended between Seine, Loire and Saône on the current departments of Saône-et-Loire, Nièvre, part of Côte-d'Or and Allier. They occupied a strategic position on the dividing line between the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the English Channel.. The Aedui, perpetual rivals of the Arverni, had replaced them after the end of the Arverni Empire and the defeat of 121 BC.. -VS. Loyal allies of the Romans from the start of the Second Punic War, when Hannibal passed through Gaul in 218 BC. -VS. , it is thanks to their alliance that Domitius Ahenobarbus could have justified his intervention against the Allobroges in 121 BC. -VS. They were no strangers to the Roman intervention in Gaul and the outbreak of the War. In 58 BC. -VS. , the Aedui appealed to Caesar to protect them against the Suevian invasion of Ariovistus which threatened their territory and then again to contain the Helvetian thrust. If the vergobret Liscus, principal magistrate of the Aedui, remained faithful to the Roman alliance, part of the Aedui oligarchy joined the Gallic camp with Dumnorix and Divitiacos. The Aedui remained faithful to the Roman alliance during the War, although Caesar estimated the Aedui who participated in the Gallic coalition at thirty-five thousand men.. Caesar did not hold it against them and they received citizenship directly because they were considered "consanguineous brothers of the Romans". Their oppidum was Bibracte (Mont-Beuvray), but they abandoned it in 15 BC.. -VS. to go and found Augustodunum (Autun). Caesar (BG. I, 10, 33; VII, 32, 33); Strabo (G. IV, 3). Kruta: 21, 46, 69-70, 187, 251, 348-349, 351, 359, 362, 364-365.

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