v15_0529 - TURONES (Area of Touraine) Potin “à la tête diabolique”
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 55.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
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Starting price : 55.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Potin “à la tête diabolique”
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,05 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire dont l’un des jets de coulée est cassé. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES II, 21 juin 1997, n° 217
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à gauche, avec l'œil en creux.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Taureau cornupète chargeant à gauche.
Commentary
La classe III ressemble beaucoup à la classe II, si ce n’est le traitement du taureau dont le corps est bouleté et donc en plus haut relief que les pattes et la queue.
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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