Live auction - bga_874023 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Statère au taureau enseigne et à l’aigle, var. 1
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| Estimate : | 8 000 € |
| Price : | 9 450 € |
| Maximum bid : | 9 987 € |
| End of the sale : | 05 December 2023 15:09:10 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Statère au taureau enseigne et à l’aigle, var. 1
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,94 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Superbe monnaie frappée sur un flan très large, éclaté par endroit, avec les deux côtés complets. Faiblesse de frappe périphérique. Frappe vigoureuse et de jolis détails
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Predigree :
Avec son certificat d’exportation n°240747 délivré par le Ministère français de la Culture
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, la chevelure en trois grosses mèches torsadées et de deux mèches au-dessus du front ; un cordon perlé se terminant par une petite tête coupée en dessous ; une croisette aux extrémités bouletées devant la bouche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale bridé, galopant à gauche ; un aigle picorant à gauche, posé sur la croupe ; un taureau à droite entre les jambes du cheval.
Commentary
Première fois que nous présentons ce type à la vente !.
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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