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bga_983836 - EMPORION and Celtic imitations (AMPURIAS) Drachme au cavalier
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Type : Drachme au cavalier
Date: c. 240-220 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 4,19 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Drachme bien identifiable mais de frappe molle au droit et décentrée au revers. Métal piquée en surface
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête masculine à droite, un ruban retient les mèches de la chevelure ; quelques cheveux retombent sur le cou ; deux dauphins se devinent devant le visage.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cavalier à droite, tenant une lance et un bouclier ; sur une ligne d’exergue.
Historical background
EMPORION and Celtic imitations (AMPURIAS)
(3rd - 2nd century BC)
The notion of people or tribe seems to disappear with regard to certain attributions when we examine the imitation coins of Emporion or Rhodè. If the prototypes are struck beyond the Pyrenees, the imitations were issued on both sides of the mountain range. The early death of R. Boudet (1958-1995) did not allow him to establish a corpus of these coins. The finds are not limited to Aquitaine, but are spread over the great West between the Loire and the Pyrenees, i.e. nearly a third of the territory of ancient Gaul. The finds of imitations of the drachma of Emporion, which seems to have had a wider distribution, are numerous and spread over the whole of the geographical area: from Charnizay in the Indre-et-Loire or Issoudun in the 'Indre to Ruscino in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
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