Live auction - bga_825416 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère d’or au sanglier en cimier et à la roue
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| Estimate : | 30 000 € |
| Price : | 52 000 € |
| Maximum bid : | 52 000 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 June 2023 17:09:06 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Statère d’or au sanglier en cimier et à la roue
Date: IIe siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,65 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Superbe monnaie sur un flan court et bien centré. Au droit, la tête est de toute beauté, des traits fins très bien venus à la frappe. Magnifique revers avec de très beaux reliefs. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Monnaie provenant de la collection André Libaud
Avec son certificat d'exportation de bien culturel n°225215 délivré par le ministère français de la Culture
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux en grosses mèches, un sanglier en cimier ; de la tête partent des cordons perlés enroulés autour de la tête.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale à droite ; au-dessus, l’aurige tenant les reines de la mains droite et levant la main gauche ; une rouelle à huit rayons sous le cheval.
Commentary
Les statères vénètes au sanglier en cimier et à la rouelle sont assez variés, mais cet exemplaire semble inédit avec une rouelle à huit rayons sous le cheval au revers, et un aurige ne tenant rien dans la main gauche (contrairement à l’exemplaire DT 2104 sur lequel l’aurige tient une branche feuillue).
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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