VENETES Vannes region 2nd century B.C. - Lot 124

VENETES Vannes region 2nd century B.C. Head on the left, hair divided into two large locks. Beaded cords all around. R/. Trace of an androcephalic horse. ♦ DT - ; LT - ; cf. SENA Actes du Colloque de Brest mai 2015 p.21 fig 17 Gold statère (7.46 g) Extremely rare. Portrait in fine style. Very fine/B. Venetes. The Venetians were one of the peoples of Celtic Gaul. In the 1st century B.C., this tribe lived in what is now the Morbihan department, and gave its name to the town of Vannes. Prior to the Roman invasion, they competed commercially and militarily with the Pictons, further south, for control of the mouth of the Loire, one of the tin routes to southern Europe. In the 1st century BC, the Romans gave the Venetians Darioritum, now Vannes, as their new capital.