Live auction - bga_590830 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Statère au cavalier armé, dit “au type de Carantec”
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| Estimate : | 3 000 € |
| Price : | 2 000 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 112 € |
| End of the sale : | 16 June 2020 15:39:20 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Statère au cavalier armé, dit “au type de Carantec”
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,05 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Si le droit présente une faiblesse de frappe à 12 heures, le revers est bien venu et d’une grande finesse dans la frappe. Flan large
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du catalogue CELTIC IV (2012), bga_270002
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, la chevelure en grosses mèches, entourée de cordons perlés enroulés autour et terminés par de petites têtes.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cavalier à gauche, brandissant une lance et un bouclier ; une sorte de fleuron en forme de lys devant le cheval et un sanglier enseigne à droite entre les jambes.
Commentary
Les monnaies de ce type de Carantec (du nom du trésor découvert sur le canton de Taulé dans le Finistère en 1910) sont très rares. Sur la quarantaine de monnaies de ce trésor, trente seraient des Osismes et huit sont identifiées dans les collections du musée de Rennes. Plus récemment, en 2007, ce sont 56 statères au cavalier armé qui furent découverts dans le trésor de Laniscat (dont 45 avec la tête 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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