Live auction - bga_590834 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Quart de statère d'électrum à la tente – à la tête coupée
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| Estimate : | 3 000 € |
| Price : | 1 500 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 16 June 2020 15:40:23 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Quart de statère d'électrum à la tente – à la tête coupée
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 1,57 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire dans un état de conservation exceptionnel permettant une lecture complète de ce type si particulier ! Joli revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à droite, la chevelure en trois grosses mèches, avec bâton en cimier ; cordon perlé autour de la tête.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale à gauche ; une sorte de tente stylisée entre les jambes ; au-dessus de la croupe, une tête coupée terminée par une croix en guise de stimulus devant le poitrail du cheval.
Commentary
Les quatre monnaies n° 4-8 sont d'un type bien particulier qui manque à tous les ouvrages de référence. Ils sont tous issus de coins différents ! La seule référence est le musée de Péronne, numéro 230 et cité comme exemplaire unique (variante 1 de Philippe Abolivier, “le monnayage des Osismes”). Notre exemplaire est de mêmes coins. Il s’agit donc du second et plus bel exemplaire connu !.
Historical background
GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère)
(2nd - 1st centuries BC)
The Osismes were an Armorican people, settled in the current department of Finistère, at the northwestern end of Gaul and the Armorican coasts. They had as chief town Vorgium, today Carhaix. Their neighbors were the Veneti and the Coriosolites. Their name would mean "the furthest away" or "the people at the end of the world". They were subjugated by Caesar's army in 57 along with the other Armorican peoples. But from 56, they joined the coalition led by the Venetians. They will participate in the contingent of twenty-five thousand men provided in 52 BC to the army of the Gallic coalition by the Armorican peoples. Caesar (BG. II, 34, III, 9, VII, 75, 1). Pliny (HN IV, 107). Ptolemy (II, 8). Kruta, page 766.
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