v15_0743 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère d'argent, classe I
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 290.00 €
Estimate : 600.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 290.00 €
Estimate : 600.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Statère d'argent, classe I
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 6,18 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, complet des deux côtés. Beau portrait, mais frappé avec un coin usé et rouillé au droit. Très joli revers, légèrement décentré. Style fin et haut relief sur le cheval androcéphale et le petit personnage
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du trésor d'Amanlis (Ille-et-Vilaine) et de la collection du Dr. Colbert de Beaulieu
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux allongés en grosses mèches.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale à droite, l'aurige tient les rênes ; devant le cheval, un rinceau ; sous le cheval, petit personnage couché à droite.
Commentary
Il est numéroté 20 au revers de la main du Dr. Colbert de Beaulieu. Le style de la tête au droit semble beaucoup plus fin. Le nez est plus petit que sur les exemplaires de la classe 1.
Historical background
VENETI (Area of Vannes)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Vénètes were an Armorican people who resided in the current department of Morbihan and whose capital was Vannes. They were as good sailors as they were excellent traders and controlled both the pewter trade and its export between Brittany and Rome. They had a powerful fleet and many coastal ports. The Vénètes took the head of the Armorican coalition which opposed Caesar in 57 BC They were submitted by Crassus. The following year, in 56 BC, the Venetian fleet met that of Caesar, in the Loire estuary or in the Gulf of Morbihan and was totally destroyed. They sent a relief contingent to help clear Vercingetorix besieged in Alesia during the second revolt. After the war, the Vénètes lost their political power, but kept an economic role, in particular in the commercial relations with Brittany. Caesar (BG. II, 34; III, 7, 9, 11, 16, 17; VII, 75). Livy (Ep. 104). Strabo (G. IV, 4, 1). Pliny (HN. IV, 107); Ptolemy (G. II, 8).
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