Live auction - bga_736859 - SORDES or SARDONES (Roussillon and Ruscino) Obole à l’hippocampe de Ruscino et du Rousillon
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| Estimate : | 700 € |
| Price : | 820 € |
| Maximum bid : | 860 € |
| End of the sale : | 20 August 2024 16:08:54 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Obole à l’hippocampe de Ruscino et du Rousillon
Date: IIe siècle av. J.-C
Metal : silver
Diameter : 8 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 0,28 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie bien centrée, avec de très jolis détails au droit comme au revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Hippocampe stylisé à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Motifs géométriques ; un annelet pointé et un segment avec des globules.
Commentary
L. Villaronga classe ce genre de division dans les Divisions incertaines de la fin du IIIe siècle avant J.-C..
Historical background
SORDES or SARDONES (Roussillon and Ruscino)
(4th - 1st centuries BC)
The Sardones, Sordes or Sordons were a people of antiquity who became Iberian then Gallic, and located east of the Pyrenees. Located on the Mediterranean, the territory of Sardones was bordering Hispania, and had for main cities Ruscino (today Château-Roussillon) and Illiberis (today Elne). They had for neighbors the Indigetes in the south, the Kerètes in the west and undoubtedly the Élisyques in the north in the region of Narbonne. According to Avienus in the 4th century BC. AD, they occupied both the Roussillon coast and the regions of Albères, Conflent and Vallespir. According to Pomponius Mela in the 1st century, the sources of Salses (Fons salsulae) constitute the northern limit of the territory of the Sardones. This follows the coast towards the south to Cerbère (Cervaria). This last point is cited as the limit of Gaul. Their country formed Roussillon and nowadays corresponds to the eastern half of the department of Pyrénées-Orientales. Source Wikipedia..
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