v15_0753 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère de billon, classe V à la roue
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 275.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 275.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Statère de billon, classe V à la roue
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 5,53 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur un flan corrodé et légèrement éclaté. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du trésor d'Amanlis (Ille-et-Vilaine), de la collection du Dr. Colbert de Beaulieu
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 ; le cou marqué par un Y.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale à gauche, l'aurige tient les rênes ; devant le cheval, un rinceau ; roue à huit rayons avec moyeu central sous le cheval.
Commentary
Poids léger. Il est numéroté 157 au revers de la main du Dr. Colbert de Beaulieu et semble de mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du musée de Rennes (p. 169, n° 540).
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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