LEMOVICES Limoges region Late 2nd century and 1st third of 1 - Lot 74

LEMOVICES Limoges region Late 2nd century and 1st third of 1st century B.C. Head to right, hair in thick strands. R/. Horse on left. Above, a crane, its tail in plume, resting on the rump, between two centered rings. In front, an S-shaped scroll emerging from the mouth. Below, three-lobed finial. ♦ DT 3409 and 10; LT cf 4068 et seq. Copper-plated gold statère "à la grue". (6,84 g) Rare. Oblong blank. A very fine example. Lemovices. The Lemovices or Lemoviques were the Gallic people who mainly occupied the ancient region of Limousin, to which they gave their name as well as the city of Limoges. Their territory covered the departments of Haute-Vienne (87), Creuse (23) and Corrèze (19), as well as small portions of the departments of Charente (16), Dordogne (24) and Indre (36). In 52 B.C., some ten thousand Lemovician fighters were sent against Caesar at Alesia, where their leader, Sedullos, was killed.