bga_972158 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Quart de statère d’or au personnage ailé
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Type : Quart de statère d’or au personnage ailé
Date: IIe siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 1,86 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très beau quart centré des deux côtés. Superbe revers très bien venu. Patine de collection
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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.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale, bridé à gauche ; au-dessus, l'aurige tient une renne et a l’autres main très développée (relié à un étendard qui flotte devant la tête du cheval) ; un personnage ailé sous le cheval.
Commentary
Les quarts vénètes sont relativement rares mais curieusement très variés ; cet exemplaire avec la petite tête à droite, associé à un revers au personnage ailé à gauche, correspond aux DT. 2126, 2127 et 2131 qui constituent respectivement les var. 1 et 4 (?).
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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