bga_837149 - PICTONES / CENTER WEST, Unspecified Drachme d’argent à l'hippophore
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Price : 380.00 €
Type : Drachme d’argent à l'hippophore
Date: c.80-50 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 2,05 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Belle monnaie sur un flan bien centré. Quelques faiblesses, mais de très jolis détails. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Petite tête à droite, entourée de cordons perlés, la chevelure stylisée.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval galopant à droite conduit par un aurige étendant la main droite ; entre les pattes du cheval, hippophore.
Historical background
PICTONES / CENTER WEST, Unspecified
(1st century BC)
Several types traditionally given to the Pictons see their attribution questioned for a more general geographical area such as Center-West or Great-West of Gaul. Some also propose an attribution to a military workshop, perhaps linked to the Aedui... We must not imagine or dream of the Gallic, or even Celtic, economic space as closed. coins prove us wrong every day.
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