bga_480685 - GALLIA BELGICA - REMI (Area of Reims) Potin au bucrane
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Price : 108.00 €
Type : Potin au bucrane
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Reims (51)
Metal : potin
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,43 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire agréable aux penons bien visibles. Patine gris foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Bucrane accosté de deux esses, globule entre les cornes et surmonté d'un panache formé de demi-cercles avec un globule ; bourrelet périphérique.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Animal (ours ou éléphant) attaquant un serpent (?) à droite ; grènetis perlé et bourrelet périphérique.
Historical background
GALLIA BELGICA - REMI (Area of Reims)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Remi were one of the most powerful peoples of Gaul and loyal allies of the Romans. The territory of the Rèmes extended over present-day Champagne, along the Aisne. They had for neighbors the Atuatuci, the Treveri, the Mediomatrics, the Lingones, the Suessions, the Bellovaci and the Nervians. They denounced to Caesar the coalition of Belgian peoples of 57 BC which included the Suessions who shared the same laws and the same magistrates. Their main oppidum was Bibrax. The capital of the civitas in Gallo-Roman times was Durocortorum (Reims). Caesar (BG. II, 3-5, 7, 12; III, 11; V, 3, 24, 53, 54, 56; VI, 4, 12, 44; VII, 63, 90; VIII, 6, 11) . Strabo (G. IV, 3, 5). Kruta: 70, 313-314, 366.
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