v25_0690 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère d'argent, classe III, var. 4
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
Realised price : 465.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 473.00 €
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
Realised price : 465.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 473.00 €
Type : Statère d'argent, classe III, var. 4
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,7 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 4,66 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Statère bien centré sur un flan large. Types de droit et de revers complets. Faiblesse de frappe au droit, mais forts reliefs au revers. L’aspect de surface de ce billon est légèrement granuleux
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux allongés en grosses mèches se terminant par des S, entourée d’un cordon perlé ; une sorte de fleuron à la base du cou.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale, bridé à droite ; au-dessus, l'aurige tient une hampe ; devant le cheval, un rinceau et le vexillum ; sous le cheval, sanglier enseigne à droite, accosté d’une croisette.
Commentary
On note un coup de burin au droit et au revers, à peu près de même taille et dans la même position. Ce revers est caractéristique avec la croisette.
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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