VOLKS TECTOSAGES Toulouse region - Lot 129

VOLKS TECTOSAGES Toulouse region 2nd - 1st centuries B.C. Cubist head on the left, hair in ovoid strands held in a bun. Eye "poached". R/. Cross cantoned with lunules and crescents, an axe and shuttle. ♦ Savès 11-12; GP 25; LT 3254 var. ; Silver drachma "with cubist head". (2.90 g) Lattes Treasury type. Flan coupé. Portrait slightly crushed. T.B. Volques tectosages. The Tolosates were a people of southwest Gaul, probably a fraction of the Volques Tectosages, neighbors of the Aquitanian Ausques, whose capital was Tolosa (Old Toulouse). Around 121 B.C., they were subdued by Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, and their territory became part of Narbonne Gaul. They were loyal allies of Julius Caesar. Comigne depot The third Lattes Treasure, made up of coins with a cross, was discovered in August 1967 by Henri Prades during a survey of plot DZ1, the same plot that had yielded the first two Massaliète obolus treasures, and a fairly detailed prefatory publication was given the same year (Majurel 1967, p.408-433). "A treasure in 1965, a treasure in 1966, we owed it to ourselves to collect another in 1967: it's done...".