Live auction - bga_373184 - PARISII (Area of Paris) Statère d'or, classe II
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| Estimate : | 20 000 € |
| Price : | 42 000 € |
| Maximum bid : | 45 000 € |
| End of the sale : | 15 December 2015 14:57:14 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Statère d'or, classe II
Date: c. 60-52 AC.
Mint name / Town : Paris (75)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,14 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Agréable exemplaire, sur un flan un peu court, avec un superbe revers. Droit avec de légers défauts de frappe. Très fine patine, comme un peu poreuse, avec de petites zones rougeâtres
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Vinchon du 13 avril 1991, n° 58. C’est le n° 96.3696 de J. Sills
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à droite ; volute devant le visage ; “fruit” bien visible devant le menton.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval bondissant à gauche ; au-dessus, un filet ; entre les jambes, un fleuron et cinq globules posés en cercle.
Commentary
Ce statère a été frappé avec les coins de droit n° 10 et de revers n° 12 de l’étude de J. Sills. Traditionnellement, ces statères appartiennent à la classe II de J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu ; ils ont été attribués à l’Atelier parisii A, classe 4a par J. Sills qui recense plus d’une vingtaine d’exemplaires.
Historical background
PARISII (Area of Paris)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Parisii were a small but powerful people whose oppidum was Lutèce. Related to the Sénons, the Parisii and the city would have emancipated themselves from their tutelage, relatively late, after the Arverne defeat of 121 BC. The wealth of the Parisii rested on the river control of the Seine and the confluences with the Marne, Bièvre, Ourcq and Oise. César chooses Lutèce, in 53 before J. - C. to convene the assembly of the Gallic peoples. The Parisii were among the first to answer the call of Vercingetorix, the following year, in 52 BC, and they provided a contingent of eight thousand men for the relief army. Watched over by Labienus, friend and legate of Caesar, the territory of the Parisii was the scene of the last battles between Gauls and Romans. Eventually, the Aulercan chief Camulogenes was defeated and killed near Lutetia. Caesar (BG. VI, 3; VII, 4, 34, 57, 75). Kruta: 36, 40 46, 68, 365, 368.
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