v15_0650 - SENONES (Area of Sens) Potin à la grosse tête
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 45.00 €
Estimate : 100.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 45.00 €
Estimate : 100.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Potin à la grosse tête
Date: c. avant 52 AC.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,23 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Usure assez importante au droit. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES II, 21 juin 1997, n° 273
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Grosse tête casquée à gauche (entre deux besants) ; œil vide.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à gauche, surmonté par quatre globules posés en T ; un autre entre les jambes du cheval.
Commentary
L’aspect des reliefs a tendance à se détériorier, les globules ne sont plus distincts et semblent se confondre avec le sujet.
Historical background
SENONES (Area of Sens)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Sénons, whose name means the sages or the elders, controlled a vast territory which extended between the south of Champagne and the north of Burgundy. Their main oppidum was Agedincum (Sens) which still retains the name of the ancient civitas today. They had several other oppida like Auxerre, Tonnerre or Avallon. Divona seems to have been the principal sanctuary of the Senones. Caesar had wintered six of his legions in 53 BC at Agedincum. Labienus, Caesar's lieutenant and legate, came to settle in the region of Sens between Gergovie and Alesia in order to control the roads and protect Caesar's armies from an attack from the Belgians or the Germans. Caesar (BG. II, 2; V, 54, 56; VI, 2, 3, 44; VII, 4, 10, 11, 34, 56-59, 62, 75). Ptolemy (G. II, 8, 9).
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