AQUITAINE Southwest region of Gaul 3rd century B.C. - Lot 22

AQUITAINE Southwest region of Gaul 3rd century B.C. Female head to left, hair up in a bun. R/. Rouelle with four points replacing the balaustion rose. ♦ LT 2346; * Scheers (Alfred Danicourt) 43 Silver drachma imitated from the coins of Rhodé (Rhodes). (5,00 g) Very rare type. T.B. * Simone Scheers. Les monnaies gauloises de la collection Alfred Danicourt, Maire de Péronne. Cercle d'Etudes Numismatiques. Travaux 7, Brussels, 1975. Jean-Claude Richard, Director of Research at the CNRS. Rhodé coins in Gaul. Discoveries of drachma coins issued at Rhodé (Rosas, Spain) during the 3rd century B.C. are extremely rare in both the Iberian Peninsula and Gaul. Most of the 50 or so examples we know of today have no recorded provenance. Aquitaine. Finds of Rhodè coins imitating Greek Rhodes coins are concentrated in Aquitaine, and do not extend beyond the Garonne and Dordogne rivers, with treasures from Mouleydier in the Dordogne or Mouliets-et-Villemartin in the Gironde, and as far as Montlaurès in the Aude and Foix in the Ariège.