Live auction - bga_645535 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Statère dit “au personnage recroquevillé”, var. 8 au cheval à droite
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| End of the sale : | 09 March 2021 15:50:09 |
Type : Statère dit “au personnage recroquevillé”, var. 8 au cheval à droite
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,67 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire avec un revers complet de belle composition. Electrum de très bas or
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, la chevelure en grosses mèches, entourée de cordons perlés enroulés autour et terminés par de petites têtes ; une croix accostée de deux petites esses en cimier .
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale bridé, galopant à droite ; au-dessus, restes de la tête de l’aurige au bout d’un cordon perlé et une petite rouelle perlée à quatre rayons ; entre les jambes, un petit personnage ailé et recroquevillé.
Commentary
Ce type précis correspond au DT. 2205 au personnage couché. P. Abollivier regroupe ces monnaies avec le revers orienté à droite en Variante 8 du type au personnage recroquevillé. Selon ce dernier, “six exemplaires ont été analysés dont quatre sont en or allié faible titre et deux en billon aurifère”. Le poids moyen des ces six exemplaires est de 6,70 grammes (de 5,98 à 6,99 g). Ce type précis manque à presque toutes les collections publiques publiées, sauf celle de Rennes.
Historical background
GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère)
(2nd - 1st centuries BC)
The Osismes were an Armorican people, settled in the current department of Finistère, at the northwestern end of Gaul and the Armorican coasts. They had as chief town Vorgium, today Carhaix. Their neighbors were the Veneti and the Coriosolites. Their name would mean "the furthest away" or "the people at the end of the world". They were subjugated by Caesar's army in 57 along with the other Armorican peoples. But from 56, they joined the coalition led by the Venetians. They will participate in the contingent of twenty-five thousand men provided in 52 BC to the army of the Gallic coalition by the Armorican peoples. Caesar (BG. II, 34, III, 9, VII, 75, 1). Pliny (HN IV, 107). Ptolemy (II, 8). Kruta, page 766.
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