Live auction - bga_827296 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Quart de statère dit “à la barrière”
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| Estimate : | 700 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 25 April 2023 16:16:17 |
Type : Quart de statère dit “à la barrière”
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 1,62 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Jolie monnaie frappée sur un flan court et centré. Flan usé au droit, mais une tête agréable. De jolis détails au revers. Patine grise, cuivrée
Predigree :
Monnaie provenant de la collection André Libaud
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, la chevelure en trois grosses mèches ; cordons perlés enroulés autour .
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale à gauche ; au-dessus, restes de l’aurige ; la “barrière d’hippodrome” entre les jambes du cheval et une rouelle devant le poitrail.
Commentary
A peine une quinzaine d'exemplaires sont répertoriés dans le Moneta. Ce quart existe avec la tête à droite ou à gauche.
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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