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v15_0371 - PICTONES (Area of Poitiers) Drachme “du type de Saint-Seurin”

PICTONES (Area of Poitiers) Drachme “du type de Saint-Seurin” XF
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 230.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 230.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 282.00 €
Type : Drachme “du type de Saint-Seurin”
Date: c. 80-60 AC.
Mint name / Town : Poitiers (86)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,04 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan irrégulier, faiblesse de frappe sur la chevelure au droit et sur la tête du cheval au revers
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite (les cheveux épars avec de grosses mèches, invisibles sur cet exemplaire).

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cavalier galopant à droite, conduit par un aurige ; sous le cheval, un annelet pointé ou une rouelle.

Commentary


L’aurige est très stylisé, représenté sous la forme d’une ligne perlée au bord du flan (très proche de celui du statère d’or LT 4555), avec un bras coudé jusqu’à la crinière du cheval. En revanche, sa tête située juste au niveau de l’éclatement du flan à 12 heures semble assez naturelle.

Historical background


PICTONES (Area of Poitiers)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Pictons were a people of the Celtic settled in the current Poitou to whom they gave their name. Their capital was Lemonum (origin: lemo or limo = elm), at the confluence of the Clain and the Boivre, on a fortified oppidum, today Poitiers. They were a people who had good sailors. Their name comes from the fact that they painted their faces, Pictavi, name given by Caesar. He enlisted five thousand Pictons as auxiliaries in 56 BC. -VS. , in order to build boats for his campaign against the Veneti. This fleet was also used for the Brittany expedition in 55 BC.. -VS. In 52 BC. -VS. , they provided eight thousand men to the relief army to go and deliver Alesia, besieged by Caesar. Among the Picton chiefs mentioned several times, we find Atectorix and Duratios. Atectorix seems to have been a Gallic chief or notable who was to create an "ala I Gallorum Atectorigiana" at the end of Caesar's stay in Gaul (50 BC).. -VS. ) or just after leaving for Italy. The troop thus created constituted a unit of auxiliaries, soldiers who served in the Roman armies but were not integrated into the legions.. As for Duratios, a Gallic chief, he was one of the kings of the Pictons. Faithful ally of the Romans, he was besieged in 51 BC. -VS. by Dumnacus, Chief of the Andes, in Lemonum (Poitiers). He was delivered by Caius Fabius. Later, Caesar gave him the right of Roman citizenship. It is mentioned by Hirtius. Caesar (BG. III, 11; VII, 4 and 75; VIII, 26 and 27). Strabo (G. IV, 2, 1). Kruta: 68, 365-366.

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