ARVERNES Clermont-Ferrand region 3rd century B.C. - Lot 23

ARVERNES Clermont-Ferrand region 3rd century B.C. Laureate head of Apollo, right. R/. Beige of horses led by an charioteer. Below ear of wheat and in front, thunderbolt. ♦ DT 3002; LT Gold statere imitated from the statere of Philip II of Macedonia. (8,42 g) Type of *Montmorot Very nice. *Montmorot, where coins of this type were found. Commune located in the Lons-le-Saunier conurbation, in the Jura department, in the Franche-Comté cultural and historical region and the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté administrative region. The Arvernes were one of the main Celtic peoples of independent Gaul, from the 7th century BC to the Roman conquest. During the Imperial period, they were the inhabitants of a Gallo-Roman city bearing their name (civitas arvenorum), attached to the province of Aquitaine Gaul. In Antiquity, they occupied a territory corresponding to the Auvergne region, which owes its name to them. Their most famous historical figures are the kings Luernos, Bituitos, his son, and Vercingetorix, son of Celtillos, who was one of Julius Caesar's adversaries in the Gallic War.