Live auction - bga_934818 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère d’or à la petite tête nue
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| Estimate : | 2 500 € |
| Price : | 1 300 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 300 € |
| End of the sale : | 24 September 2024 15:45:25 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Statère d’or à la petite tête nue
Date: IIe siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 7,71 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Joli statère frappé sur un flan épais et centré. De fines rayure sur la tête au droit, et coin usé au revers. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux en grosses mèches ; de la tête partent quatre cordons perlés, terminés chacun par une petite tête. Le décor placé sous la barre horizontale, au sommet de la hampe verticale, s’enrichit ; bâton oblique où prend appui le petit profil au bout du petit cordon perlé situé à gauche de la base du cou.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale, bridé à droite ; au-dessus, l'aurige tient un lien ondulant relié à un étendard qui flotte devant la tête du cheval ; une roue à rayons sous la queue du cheval et un personnage (ailé) devant le cheval, un rinceau.
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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