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bga_873570 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Quart de statère d’or au droit oblitéré

VENETI (Area of Vannes) Quart de statère d’or au droit oblitéré XF
825.00 €(Approx. 899.25$ | 693.00£)
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Type : Quart de statère d’or au droit oblitéré
Date: IIe siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 1,80 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Joli quart de statère sur un flan court et centré. Quelques faiblesses, mais un bon état de conservation général. Patine de collection
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Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de style armoricain à droite, oblitéré par des barres qui s’entrecroisent. Des cordons perlés partent de la chevelure.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale à droite ; au-dessus, un aurige.

Commentary


Louis-Pol Délestrée écrit qu’un peuple différent du peuple émetteur a pu défigurer la tête au droit.

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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