Lot no. 99
GAULE - CELTIC
Aulerques Eburovices. CEPPEOS statere, class II ND (2nd c. BC).
Av. Elements of the Suessions anchor statere: head on the right with various dislocated elements around the central anchor: facing crescents for the hair, laurel wreath behind, waves in esses for the eyes on the right, all in a grenetis.
Rv. [CE]ΠΠ[IIOC]. Free horse galloping left, remnant of legend above, spoked wheel between legs.
LT.- - DT.- - Sills.- - CN 237, fig.2 = this specimen ; Gold - 5,87 g - 17 mm - 9 h
Coin published in Cahiers Numismatique no. 237 (September 2023), in the article by Louis-Pol Delestrée and Nicolas Manios "La série trimétallique de CEPPEOS / CEΠΠΙΙΟC en Haute-Normandie (Acte 3)" and reproduced fig. 2, p.26.
Of slightly off-centre strike, with weakness at 6 o'clock on the right and 9 o'clock on the reverse. The blank is slightly concave, with a golden patina. Unpublished and extremely rare. TTB to Superb.
The series with the CEPPEOS legend seems to come from the territory of the Eburovices by the geographical origin of the finds, but it is stylistically close to the Belgian people. The authors therefore put forward the hypothesis of an itinerant workshop minting for a Gallic nobleman or chief, inspired by Belgian coins such as the staters with the Suession eye.
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