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144 - GAUL - CELTIC Armorica / Coriosolites. Stater with lyre, Cla…
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GAUL - CELTIC Armorica / Coriosolites. Stater with lyre, Class VI ‘with the nose in a 2-shape when upside down’, featuring a lyre and a cross-shaped mark ND (late first half of the 1st century BC and the Gallic Wars). Rennes 596 - DT. Series 365A, missing; Billon - 6.78 g - 21.5 mm - 4 h Specimen MP no. 71 in the book “Surréelles Monnaies Gauloises”, by Samuel Gouet and Marc Petit – acquired from Maison Platt in 1997. A uniform specimen with complete designs. Obverse showing slightly more wear and a chip on the edge. Reverse well-centred and with a more vigorous strike. Thick, dark patina. Very Good / Very Good to Superb. 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 Redones). 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). Our specimen corresponds to K. Gruel’s class VIb, which appears to be missing from the *Nouvel Atlas*; the two specimens DT. 2329 and 2330 feature a wild boar rather than a lyre and, furthermore, lack the cross in front of the breast. The Rennes Museum holds only a single specimen of this very rare coin (no. 596). On the reverse, the centring of our coin reveals the exergue adorned with a wavy line, like a wave
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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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