v20_0167 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme "à la tête bouclée du Causé", tête romanisée, flan quadrangulaire
MONNAIES 20 (2004)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
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Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Drachme "à la tête bouclée du Causé", tête romanisée, flan quadrangulaire
Date: c. 121-52 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,89 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie de flan très irrégulier, surtout au revers, avec un très beau droit
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Croix bouletée, formée de quatre cantons : une S au 1er canton ; annelet surmonté d’une lunule au 2e canton ; (un globule au 3e canton) ; annelet pointé relié à deux points au 4e canton.
Commentary
Pièce découpée au burin. Portrait de style fin au droit, avec une chevelure en esses.
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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