Live auction - bga_836105 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - LONGOSTALETES (Area of Narbonne) Drachme “au style languedocien”, tête à droite
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Live starting : Type : Drachme “au style languedocien”, tête à droite
Date: IIe siècle av. J.-C
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,48 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan centré au droit, trois cantons visibles au revers. Frappe un peu molle au niveau de la tête, mais vigoureuse au revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite stylisée avec la chevelure bouclée.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Croix divisée en quatre cantons : un globule surmonté d'une lunule dans chaque canton ; une hache au 3e canton.
Commentary
Si ce type est bien assimilé aux drachmes de style languedocien, il manque aux ouvrages de références tels que le Savès, Hiriart ou Lopez. Pourtant un exemplaire frappé avec les mêmes coins est illustré dans le Dicomon (DCR-99B), avec deux exemplaires mentionnés provenant des fouilles de Lattes. La métrologie se situe entre 3 et 3,5 grammes. Sans y correspondre, avec ce fer de hache si particulier, notre exemplaire se rapproche du BnF 3054 (Savès 350).
Historical background
GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - LONGOSTALETES (Area of Narbonne)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
This people who occupied most of the departments of Aude and Hérault is mentioned neither by Ptolemy, nor by Strabo, nor by Caesar. Their coinage is known to us only by the treasures of Béziers (Hérault) discovered in 1871 and which contained between 750 and 800 coins of Languedoc style as well as that of Moussan in the Aude, discovered in 1967 and which contained 28 drachmas of style " Languedocian".
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