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140 - GAUL - CELTIC Armorica / Coriosolites. Stater with lyre, Cla…
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GAUL - CELTIC Armorica / Coriosolites. Stater with lyre, Class IV ‘with ornate nose’, featuring a lyre, var. 1 ND (late first half of the 1st century BC and the Gallic Wars). Rennes 793–794 – DT.2334 var.; Billon – 6.17 g – 23.5 mm – 11 h MP specimen no. 73 in the book “Surréelles Monnaies Gauloises”, by Samuel Gouet and Marc Petit – acquired from C. Burgan in 1996. Wide, oval blank with centred and complete designs. Grey patina with reddish areas and others appearing to have retained their original lustre. TTB. The classification of the Coriosolite coinage has been somewhat disrupted each time a researcher has taken an interest in it. J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu was the first to propose distinguishing six classes. K. Gruel, whilst classifying the coins from the Trébry hoard (over 1,750 coins), updated this classification by establishing a relative and comparative chronology of neighbouring coinages (those of the Veneti and the Redoni). The chronology of the classes would be as follows: VIa, VIb, Va, Vb, IVa, IVb, I, III and II. The authors of the *Nouvel Atlas* qualify this chronology by suggesting the existence of several mints – at least two (as two groups could be identified with no connection between their dies: VI, V and IV on the one hand, and I, III and II on the other). The staters of class IVa are described as having an ornamented nose, but within this class a large number of variants can be observed. The typical IVa coin (cf. Rennes, p. 34) has an androcephalic nose, as is the case on our stater. On the reverse, the androcephalic figure has a distinctive feature that sometimes appears to be associated with this class; the jaw and the head of the charioteer are emphasised by a very fine beaded border (as on coins nos. 793 and 794 in Rennes
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About the sale A selection of coins and medals from the collection of an amateur collector from Burgundy (Part 2)
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Auction time 09/05/2026 at 9:00 AM
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