E-auction 85-43107 - bga_290112 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Quart de statère de billon
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| Estimate : | 220 € |
| Price : | 122 € |
| Maximum bid : | 226 € |
| End of the sale : | 01 December 2014 15:10:30 |
| bidders : | 8 bidders |
Type : Quart de statère de billon
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 1,24 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan un peu court et ovale, avec un avers assez bien venu et presque complet. Le revers est plus incomplet et de frappe molle. Patine grise avec un aspect un peu plus granuleux au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux en grosses mèches ; décors en chevrons derrière la tête.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale, bridé à gauche ; au-dessus, l'aurige tient une hampe ; sous le cheval, petit sanglier à gauche.
Commentary
Les quarts de statères armoricains en billon sont rares. Si de plus en plus d’exemplaire coriosolites arrivent sur le marché, ceux des Vénètes sont très rares !
Ce type précis correspond à la seconde des deux seules variantes connues pour ces quart de billon.
Ce type précis correspond à la seconde des deux seules variantes connues pour ces quart de billon.
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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