v61_0313 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme trilobée, S. 368
MONNAIES 61 (2014)
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
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Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Drachme trilobée, S. 368
Date: IIe siècle av. J.-C
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14 mm
Weight : 3,63 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan un peu court, mais néanmoins avec un droit et un revers complets. Fine patine grise et irisée de médaillier
Predigree :
C’est le n° 1218 de MONNAIES 34 et le n° 672 de MONNAIES 59
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Fleur formée d’un globule central entouré de trois lunules, avec deux globules sous chaque lunule.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Croix bouletée au centre, formée de quatre cantons, chacun ornés d’une lunule ; une hache à gauche au 3e canton.
Commentary
Bien que G. Savès ne les signale pas, il existe au moins deux variantes pour ce type de drachme ; selon qu'il y a ou non des globules au revers devant la hache. Sur cet exemplaire, le manche est bouleté et il y a trois globules en bord de flan devant la hache.
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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