Live auction - bga_334424 - HELVETII (Currently Switzerland) Denier NINNO / MVAC, tête ailée
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| Estimate : | 600 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 19 April 2016 15:10:45 |
Type : Denier NINNO / MVAC, tête ailée
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 1,24 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Denier sur un flan large, avec une frappe décentrée des deux côtés, un peu molle au droit. Très légère patine, claire et brillante
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : NINNO.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, la légende devant le visage et grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : MVAC.
Reverse description : Sanglier enseigne à gauche.
Commentary
Dans les Mélanges en l’honneur de Simone Scheers, Anne Geiser a fait le point sur les monnaies helvètes à la légende NINNO (cf. pages 107-116).
Ce denier correspondrait au type 4.3.1 variante a, mais avec une légende fautive, avec très clairement MVAC au revers ! Le C final coïncide avec une cassure de coin qui se retrouve derrière le sanglier.
Ce denier correspondrait au type 4.3.1 variante a, mais avec une légende fautive, avec très clairement MVAC au revers ! Le C final coïncide avec une cassure de coin qui se retrouve derrière le sanglier.
Historical background
HELVETII (Currently Switzerland)
(3rd - 1st century BC)
The Helvetians occupied the territory of present-day Switzerland. Their neighbors were the Séquanes and the Allobroges. According to Pliny's account, it was Helicon, a Helvetian, who would have made wine known to the Gauls, which would have pushed them to invade Italy in the 4th century BC.. -VS. The Helvetians were divided into four pagi including the Tigurins and the Verbigenins. In 58 BC. -VS. , according to Caesar, their territory included forty-two strongholds and four hundred villages. They are at the origin of the intervention of the Roman armies in Gaul. Indeed, pushed by the Germans, they would have decided to emigrate towards the West towards the country of Santons, by crossing the territory of Séquanes, Lingons and Aedui. The latter appealed to Caesar to defend them in the name of the friendship that bound them to the Romans.. The Helvetians, to be sure not to return, destroyed their villages, their houses and their crops.. Defeated near Bibracte, the survivors were forced to return to their home territory. The Helvetians provided a contingent of eight thousand men for the relief army. Caesar (BG. I; IV, 10; VI, 25; VII, 75). Kruta: 16, 44, 51, 71, 94, 244, 310, 312, 338, 350, 352-353, 359, 362, 364.
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