bga_854227 - VENETI (Area of Vannes) Statère de billon, classe IV au sanglier
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Type : Statère de billon, classe IV au sanglier
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Vannes (56)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 6,01 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan ovale et bien centré. Magnifique tête au droit, superbe chevelure bien venue à la frappe. Un petit plat à douze heure. Joli revers détaillé malgré une faiblesse à deux heure. Patine grise aux reflets dorés
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux allongés en grosses mèches se terminant par des S, entourée d’un cordon perlé ; le cou marqué par un Y.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval androcéphale, bridé à gauche ; au-dessus, l'aurige tient une hampe ; devant le cheval, un rinceau ; sous le cheval, sanglier enseigne à gauche.
Commentary
Ce statère provient du trésor de Piolaine (Saint-Aubin-du-Pavail 2011) sous le n°379, dont une partie est conservée au Musée des Antiquités Nationales.
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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