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Live auction - bga_893830 - TURONES (Area of Touraine) Potin “à la tête diabolique”
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Live starting : Type : Potin “à la tête diabolique”
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,18 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Joli potin sur un flan de forme ovale. Usure fine et régulière et quelques légères faiblesses. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à gauche, avec des restes de chevelure dont les mèches sont en forme d’esses.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Taureau cornupète chargeant à gauche, la patte avant bifide.
Commentary
Sans croisette.
Historical background
TURONES (Area of Touraine)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The people of the Turons, settled on the Loire, left their name to Tours and Touraine. They are quoted several times in Caesar's Commentaries. They seem to have grown in importance after the disappearance of the Arverne empire in 121 BC. Like the Pictons, the Turons provided eight thousand men for the relief army which was to release Alesia. Their main oppidum seems to have been placed near the site of Amboise. Caesar (BG. II, 35; VII, 4, 75; VIII, 46).
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