Live auction - bga_402908 - GALLIA - SOUTH-WESTERN GAUL - TOLOSATES (Area of Vieille-Toulouse) Drachme “à la tête négroïde” - incuse
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| End of the sale : | 27 September 2016 15:26:02 |
Type : Drachme “à la tête négroïde” - incuse
Date: IIe-Ier siècles av. J.-C.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 2,93 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Drachme sur un flan quadrangulaire mais avec les angles arrondis. Superbe patine de médaillier
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une vieille collection dispersée à Drouot par A. Weil
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à gauche, de type négroïde, la chevelure représentée par un rang d’esses reposant sur un rang d’épis en forme d’Y.
Reverse
Reverse description : Avers incus.
Commentary
Cet exemplaire incus correspond au Savès n° 110 (exemplaire du musée de Nîmes), classé en R3, tout en présentant un droit et un revers mieux centré que celui de Nîmes.
Ce genre d’accident de frappe est exceptionnel.
Ce genre d’accident de frappe est exceptionnel.
Historical background
GALLIA - SOUTH-WESTERN GAUL - TOLOSATES (Area of Vieille-Toulouse)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Tolosates, component of the Volques Tectosages, occupied the region of Tolosa (Old Toulouse). They would have been submitted after 105 BC by Quintus Servilius Cæpio. This episode would be at the origin of the myth of the gold of Toulouse "aurum Tolosanum". Tolosa, their capital was included in the province of Narbonnaise, bordering independent Gaul before the Gallic war. During the Gallic Wars, the Tolosates seem to have remained faithful to the Roman alliance. Sources: Caesar (BG. I, 10; III, 20; VII, 7); Strabo (G. IV, 14).
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