Live auction - bga_335583 - GALLIA - ARMORICA - OSISMII (Area of Carhaix - Finistère) Statère dit “à la barrière”
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| Estimate : | 1 800 € |
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| End of the sale : | 01 March 2016 15:31:47 |
Type : Statère dit “à la barrière”
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brest (29)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 5,79 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Statère de qualité, sur un flan large avec une très belle tête au droit mais un revers un peu plus mou avec une frappe très légèrement décentrée. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection A. L. de Nantes
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, la chevelure en grosses mèches, cordons perlés enroulés autour ; une croisette au-dessus de la tête.
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
Ce statère n’est que le troisième de ce type que nous proposons, après celui de TRESOR II et le n° 673 de MONNAIES 26. Seulement 16 exemplaires de ce statère ont été répertoriés par les auteurs de Moneta.
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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