MDC Monnaies de Collection
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GAUL - CELTIC
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422
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GAUL - CELTIC
See original version (French)
Estimate €400
Voluntary lot
Description
GAUL - CELTIC
Élusates / Sotiates. Drachma featuring a horse, ND (2nd–1st centuries BC).
Obverse: Highly stylised head facing left, composed of globules, large commas and two series of five parallel segments.
Reverse: Horse facing left, with a sort of beaded square between its legs and a stylised wing above its back.
Savès 512–513 – LT.3587; Silver – 3.05 g – 16.5 mm – 12 h
From a Monnaies & Médailles auction, 27 March 1998, lot 263.
A superb coin on a fairly large, slightly scyphate flan. Fine grey collector’s patina. Superb.
These coins, originating mainly from the Gers according to G. Savès, were found in the hoards at Manciet in 1846, Castelnau-sur-l’Auvignon in 1881 and Laujuzan in 1882. In the latter hoard, A. Blanchet reports a weight of between 2.30 and 3.45 g. The latest research seems to suggest instead that they belong to the Sotiates (around Sos, Lot-et-Garonne), a people mentioned by Caesar (The Gallic Wars, III, 20–21)
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