Live auction - bga_990507 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme à la swastika, “COVERTOMOTVL”
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Live starting : Type : Drachme à la swastika, “COVERTOMOTVL”
Date: IIe-Ier siècles av. J.-C.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Weight : 2,88 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Drachme sur flan court et centré, à l’usure fine et régulière. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Swastika, aux quatre bras en esses contournées, flammées et marquées d’un point central, à leur jonction ; quatre esses, bouletées aux extrémités, se trouvent entre les bras.
Reverse
Reverse legend : [COVE / RTOM] / OTVL.
Reverse description : Dans une rouelle à quatre rayons, une olivette avec tigelle et unie au centre aux 1er, 2e et 4e canton ; une hache évidée à gauche, ayant trois points en triangle entre la hache et le manche, au 3e canton ; la légende divisée en trois répartie dans les 4e, 2e et 1er cantons.
Commentary
Drachme d’un type rarrissime sur le marché, pour lequel R. Boudet répertorie néanmoins 15 monnaies, avec seulement deux provenances géographiques ; cinq de Vieille-Toulouse et deux (dont celui-ci) du Causé.
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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