E-auction 17-4463 - bga_117124 - NERVII (Currently Belgium) Potin dit “au rameau”, classe IV
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| Estimate : | 35 € |
| Price : | 18 € |
| Maximum bid : | 23 € |
| End of the sale : | 12 August 2013 15:03:30 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Potin dit “au rameau”, classe IV
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 20,14 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,72 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie d’une fabrication assez peu soignée. Patine gris vert
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Axe vertical, formé de sept globules, accosté de quatre mèches ondulées de part et d'autre ; bourrelet périphérique.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval stylisé à droite, divers ornements mal venus (globules et croissants) entre les jambes, devant la croupe et au-dessus du dos ; bourrelet périphérique.
Commentary
La classe IV est caractéristique avec un traitement assez grossier. L'appellation "au bouclier" ou "à l'umbo" pourrait, il nous semble, remplacer l'appellation traditionnelle "au rameau" des potins MONNAIES XV, n° 1273 à 1276.
Historical background
NERVII (Currently Belgium)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Les Nerviens belong to the large Belgian group. Their territory was very vast and extended over the north of present-day Belgium, located between Scheldt and Sambre. Their neighbors were the Menapians, the Eburones, the Remes, the Bellovaci, the Viromanduans and the Atrebates.. They had several client peoples including the Ceutrons and the Lévaques. In 57 BC. -VS. , they provided a contingent of fifty thousand men to the Belgian coalition, led by the Bellovaques. César describes them as "the fiercest of the Belgians". They were defeated at the Battle of the Sambre and decimated. Only five hundred warriors would have survived out of the sixty thousand engaged. They submitted and received the protection of the Romans, which did not prevent them, in 54 BC. -VS. , to join the sedition of Ambiorix, Eburon leader who revolted against Caesar and besieged Quintus Cicero, who was finally freed by his leader. They were preparing for war when Caesar led his troops into their territory and crushed them in 53 BC.. -VS. Nevertheless, they still provided a contingent of five thousand men to rescue Vercingetorix besieged in Alesia. Caesar (BG. II, 4, 15-17, 19, 23, 28, 29, 32; V, 24, 38, 39, 41, 42, 45, 46, 48, 56, 58; VI, 2, 3, 29; VII, 75). Strabo (G. IV, 3, 4).
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