bga_610310 - SEGUSIAVI / ÆDUI, Unspecified (Area of Feurs (Forez) / Mont-Beuvray) Bronze SECISV à la tête de face
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Type : Bronze SECISV à la tête de face
Date: c. avant 52 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 11 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 0,89 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré à l’usure régulière. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Petite tête de face, la chevelure marquée tout autour ; grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : SEC[ISV].
Reverse description : Aigle de face, la tête tournée à gauche ; les ailes déployées et les pattes posées sur un bucrane (?).
Historical background
SEGUSIAVI / ÆDUI, Unspecified (Area of Feurs (Forez) / Mont-Beuvray)
(1st century BC)
The attribution to the Ségusiaves of the mythical denier SEGVSIAVS ARVS (LT. 4622) and the potin SECISV (LT. 4628) is far from certain. The Aedui seem to be the most likely origin of the issuance of these coins. Very early on, the attribution to the Ségusiaves was nevertheless considered certain. J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu thought that the ethnic name "in the form of an epithet of nationality perhaps relates to Arus, monetary magistrate or chief of Segusian origin" loc. cit. Notes of Gallic monetary epigraphy IV, EC.11, 1964-65, p.46-69. In the Recueil des Inscriptions Gauloises, the authors temper by specifying that the attribution to the Ségusiaves is uncertain, recalling the case of the TVRONOS CANTORIX coins, issued with certainty very far from the country of the Turones.
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