v25_0593 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Bronze au loup
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 220.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 220.00 €
Starting price : 220.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 220.00 €
Type : Bronze au loup
Date: c. après 56 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15,00 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,87 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan un peu court, avec les légendes partiellement hors flan. Surface hétérogène, avec une patine vert de gris
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES IX, n° 777
Obverse
Obverse legend : [RE-X ADI]VTANVS [FF].
Obverse description : Vestiges d'une tête empruntée aux monnaies élusates en argent ; légende autour.
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOTIOTA.
Reverse description : Louve passant à gauche, levant l'antérieur droit.
Commentary
Ce type de monnaie, souvent considéré comme fourré, serait en fait constitué de monnaie de bon argent (extrêmement rares) et de bronzes qui auraient été argentés. .
Historical background
GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos)
(1st century BC)
The Sotiates or Sontiates inhabited the southwest of the current department of Lot-et-Garonne, as well as part of the Gers and the Landes, and were placed between the Elusates and the Nitiobroges. Their oppidum was Sos. If the people of the Sotiates is not itself mentioned in the Commentaries, Adietuanus, their leader, is (BG. III, 22). The latter was submitted by Publius Licinius Crassus, lieutenant of Caesar, the son of Crassus who was to die in 53 BC at the battle of Carrhae, moreover with his son. Adietanus would have surrendered to Caesar's lieutenant only after the capitulation of Sos, the capital of his people. Rallying to the Romans, the sotiate chief received the title of "Rex". Sources: Caesar (BG. III, 20, 21 and 22).
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