CALETTES Pays de Caux region 2nd century B.C. - Lot 53

CALETTES Pays de Caux region 2nd century B.C. Apollonian head on the right, eight-ray rouelle on the cheek. cheek. R/. Horse galloping to the right by a charioteer holding a pike holding a pike bearing a head. Below, double-circle rouelle and mound. À exergue, decorative motif simulating a legend. ♦ cf. L.P. Delestrée and F. Pilon "Un comptoir de la Tène moyenne en Haute Normandie " série 15 classe I fig 3 à 10 ; L.P. Delestrée Revue Numismatique 2001 (157th vol.) p.195 fig 21 pl.X Hemistatère fourré " à la roue " (3.12 g) Cf. Trésor de Bordeaux-Saint-Clair (Seine Maritime). Rare variety. Superb. Trésor de Bordeaux Saint Clair. A maritime trading post on the tin route, less than 4 km from Étretat (Seine Maritime), the commune of Bordeaux-Saint-Clair has long been known to archaeologists. In 1843, Abbé Cochet carried out a brief excavation on the outskirts of a Roman road linking Lillebonne to Étretat, identifying and partially uncovering a Gallo-Roman villa.