NM·15
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Coin type | |
Coin type: | Lejeune C1 |
Description: | obverse: right-facing head of Apollo, reverse: right-facing head of a horse and legend |
Material (main component): | silver |
Average diameter: | unknown |
Average thickness: | unknown |
Average weight: | unknown |
Workmanship: | cast |
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Archaeological culture: | unknown |
Date: | |
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Number of known pieces: | 7 |
Area of circulation: | Rhône valley |
Mint / Main site: | unknown |
Coordinates (approx.): | none |
Coin legend | |
Idealised transliteration: | .a.lkouesi |
Idealised original script: | |
Variant reading: | iailkouesi |
Position: | back |
Orientation: | 0° |
Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
Script: | North Italic script |
Letter height: | 00 cm <br />0 in <br /> |
Number of letters: | 8 - 10 |
Number of words: | 1 |
Number of lines: | 1 |
Inscription type: | minting authority |
Language: | Celtic |
Meaning: | 'of Alkovesos' (?) |
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Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 331 |
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Sources: | Lejeune 1971: 130 |
Images
Silver coin (BN 2540) of type NM·15 with iailkouesi legend
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Silver coin (BN 2539) of type NM·15 with iailkouesi legend
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Coin legends iailkouesi of coins NM·15 (as shown by Mommsen)
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Commentary
Seven specimens of the coin type are known to us:
1. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2537: 2.48 g, 14x15 mm; Pautasso 1976: tav. X.32; image in the Gallica catalogue
2. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2538: 2.38 g, 14.5x16.5 mm; image in the https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b11284391m Gallica catalogue]
3. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2539: 2.6 g, 14.5x15.5 mm; Pautasso 1976: tav. X.29; image in the Gallica catalogue
4. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2540: 2.36 g, 14x15 mm; Pautasso 1976: tav. X.31; image in the Gallica catalogue
5. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2541: 1.85 g, 14.5x15.5 mm; Pautasso 1976: tav. X.28; image in the Gallica catalogue
6. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2542: 2.55 g, 13x16 mm; image in the Gallica catalogue
7. Pautasso 1976: tav. X.30; 2.7 g; Museo di Leone, cat. no. 339
- Brenot 1998: 24-27
No. 1 has deviating (and less strange) orthography: ?. Cf. NM·16 for a legend with dubious initial iota.
Bibliography
Blanchet 1905 | Adrien Blanchet, Traité des monnaies gauloises. Vol. I, Paris: 1905. |
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Brenot 1998 | Claude Brenot, "A propos des monnaies à légendes lépontiennes de Transalpine", in: Fondazione "Andrea Pautasso" per gli studi di numismatica (ed.), Forme di contatto tra moneta locale e moneta straniera nel mondo antico. Atti del Convegno internazionale, Aosta 13-14 ottobre 1995. A cura di Giovanni Gorini, Padova: Esedra Editrice 1998, 23-37. |
CII | Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus inscriptionum italicarum antiquioris aevi. Ordine geographico digestum et glossarium italicum, in quo omnia vocabula continentur ex umbricis, sabinis, oscis, volscis, etruscis aliisque monumentis quae supersunt, Augusta Taurinorum: 1867. |
Colbert de Beaulieu 1966 | Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Beaulieu, "Légendes monétaires de Gaule en caractères dérivés de l'Étrusque", in: —, Actes du 90e congrès national des sociétés savantes, Nice, 1965. Section d'archéologie, Nice: 1966, 445–450. |
Geiser et al. 2012 | Anne Geiser, Julia Genechesi, Nicola Scoccimarro, "Monnaie et écriture au second âge du fer autour de l'arc alpin. Une nouvelle approche des statères épigraphes attribués naguère aux Salasses", Études Celtiques 38 (2012), 77–129. |