bga_189985 - VELIOCASSES (Area of Norman Vexin) Bronze SVTICOS au loup surmonté d’un sanglier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2009)
Price : 85.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2009)
Price : 85.00 €
Type : Bronze SVTICOS au loup surmonté d’un sanglier
Date: c. 50-40 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 2,6 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bronze très rare et parfaitement identifiable mais avec une surface hétérogène
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : [SV]TIC[OS].
Obverse description : Tête à droite, légende devant le visage, grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : [LÉGENDE INCERTAINE].
Reverse description : Loup à droite surmonté d’un sanglier à droite, petits annelets dans le champ ; légende allant du dessous du loup à l’arrière du sanglier.
Commentary
Ce type de bronze est très rare ; il appartiendrait à la série SVTICOS. Il figure isolé dans le Nouvel Atlas pour la série 429 “profil - loup et sanglier” reprenant en note les exemplaires de MONNAIES XV (cf. page 110 du nouvel Atlas, tome 2).
Historical background
VELIOCASSES (Area of Norman Vexin)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Véliocasses, people of Belgian Gaul, lived in the Norman Vexin located in the current department of Seine-Maritime. Their neighbors were the Lexovians and the Aulerci Éburovices, with the Seine as their border, and on the other side the Parisii, the Calètes and the Bellovaques. They participated in the Belgian coalition of 57 BC, led by the Bellovaques and provided a contingent of ten thousand men. But in 52 BC, for the relief army to release Vercingetorix besieged in Alesia, they only gave three thousand men. The following year, in 51 BC, they took part for the last time in the coalition of the Belgians in revolt under the leadership of the Bellovaques. Their main oppidum was Rouen (Rotomagus). Caesar (BG. II, 4; VII, 75; VIII, 7); Pliny (HN. IV). Ptolemy (G. II, 8). Kruta: 366.
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