bga_548223 - TURONES (Area of Touraine) Bronze DRVCCA
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 330.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 330.00 €
Type : Bronze DRVCCA
Date: c. 50-40 BC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,46 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, légèrement décentré des deux côtés. Légende du droit bien lisible au droit. Joli revers. Belle patine verte
Obverse
Obverse legend : DRVCCA.
Obverse description : Tête féminine à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Personnage féminin debout à gauche, le coude gauche appuyé sur une colonne et tenant un serpent de la main droite.
Commentary
Ce type de bronze est très rare ; c’est le premier exemplaire que nous proposons à la vente et le seul sur le marché !.
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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