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v08_0964 - GALLIA BELGICA - LEUCI (Area of Toul) Potin au sanglier enseigne

GALLIA BELGICA - LEUCI (Area of Toul) Potin au sanglier enseigne XF
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 129.58 €
Estimate : 213.43 €
Realised price : 129.58 €
Type : Potin au sanglier enseigne
Date: c. 60-50 AC
Metal : potin
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 3,64 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Portrait énigmatique au droit. Patine vert gris / Sanglier stylisé au revers
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à gauche, peut-être casquée.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Sanglier enseigne à gauche ; entre les pattes, une tête de loup ou un bucrane.

Historical background


GALLIA BELGICA - LEUCI (Area of Toul)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Leuques are mentioned only once in the Gallic Wars. Their neighbors were the Médiomatriques, the Lingons and the Séquanes. The Leuques as well as the Séquanes and the Lingones provided Caesar with wheat when the Roman army stopped at Vesontio (Besançon) to refuel before facing the Germans of Ariovistus (58 BC). Caesar (BG. I, 40).

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