bga_321383 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme au loup REX ADIETVANVS FE / SOTIOTA
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Price : 1 200.00 €
Type : Drachme au loup REX ADIETVANVS FE / SOTIOTA
Date: c. après 56 AC.
Metal : billon
Diameter : 16 mm
Weight : 2,13 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie exceptionnelle, complète et de frappe vigoureuse, avec des types bien centrés. Flan large en bon argent, légèrement cristallisé avec une patine grise et irisée, légèrement tachée par endroits
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire est le SOT-3605 du Dicomon
Obverse
Obverse legend : REX ADIETVANVS FE.
Obverse description : Vestiges d'une tête empruntée aux monnaies élusates en argent ; légende autour.
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOTIOTA.
Reverse description : Louve passant à gauche, levant l'antérieur droit.
Commentary
Ces types sont exceptionnellement complets avec toutes les légendes complètes, REX ADIETVANVS FE au droit et SOTIOTA au revers.
Historical background
GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos)
(1st century BC)
The Sotiates or Sontiates inhabited the southwest of the current department of Lot-et-Garonne, as well as part of the Gers and the Landes, and were placed between the Elusates and the Nitiobroges. Their oppidum was Sos. If the people of the Sotiates is not itself mentioned in the Commentaries, Adietuanus, their leader, is (BG. III, 22). The latter was submitted by Publius Licinius Crassus, lieutenant of Caesar, the son of Crassus who was to die in 53 BC at the battle of Carrhae, moreover with his son. Adietanus would have surrendered to Caesar's lieutenant only after the capitulation of Sos, the capital of his people. Rallying to the Romans, the sotiate chief received the title of "Rex". Sources: Caesar (BG. III, 20, 21 and 22).
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