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AUGUST 1st century BC Bust with diadem on the right, hair up…
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321
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AUGUST 1st century BC Bust with diadem on the right, hair up…
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €100
Voluntary lot
Description
AUGUST 1st century BC
Bust with diadem on the right, hair up in a bun on the nape of the neck. Grenetis.
R/. Bull charging left. Above, GERMANVS and below, INDVTILLI L(ibertvs). Grènetis.
♦ DT 707; LT 9248; Scheers (Lyon) 1157; Scheers 739 et seq.
Bronze semis "with bull" in the name of the magistrate *Indutillus. (2.80 g)
Slightly off-centre on reverse. Olive green patina. Very fine/T.B.
*This bronze, sometimes in the classical style, made from an alloy containing an average of 12% zinc (orichalcum), is a semis and not a quadrans as has long been supposed. It is cut to the nearest 1/108th of a pound (9 dozen). The distribution map shows that its circulation followed fairly closely the boundaries of the new province of Gallia Belgica, for which it served as a supplementary coinage. Traditionally classed as Gallic coinage, this bronze is in fact a provincial issue made in Rheims under imperial control by a Rhaetian prince named Indutillus".
Jean-Marc Doyen, a researcher at the University of Lille III, reattributes this bronze to the Rèmes.
JRC Collection
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