Details
LOT 3027
Celtic Southwest Gaul. Petrocorii AR Drachm. 2nd century BC. Périgueux Flamboyant type.
Head left, with elliptical eye, large open crescents for hair / Cruciform motif, axes and pelleted-rings in angles. Saves 220-222; BN 3525-28; BMC 81. Good Very Fine. Great head, both axes visible. Very rare.(1.74gr, 13mm.).
Provenance
Ex Chris Rudd, 125, lot 6, ref. no.16649.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
Footnotes
CGF attribute this type to the Petrocorii 'the four armies' and they're probably right to do so. Strabo - his name means 'squint-eyed' - indicates that the Petrocorii were very good metal-workers (Geog. IV, 2, 2). Caesar says Vercingetorix asked them to supply 5,000 troops for his rebellion (BG VIII, 75). Depeyrot records only 18 examples of this very rare type, most of them in museums.
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