Pictones, Santones, Statère à la main
1st century BC - Electrum - VF(30-35)
Profile / head to the right, with uniform facial features. Hair divided into two rows of locks. The locks framing the face are made up of surrounded half-moons.
The flame-like locks in the second row are surrounded by a beaded border. At the base of the neck, a bracket.
Helmeted androcephalic horse to the right, surmounted by a stylised charioteer holding the reins with his right hand and brandishing a pearled torque with his left. Before, coming out of the horse's mouth, a crescent. Below, a hand set on a yoke-shaped bracket.
This coin is part of Group A of the ‘Statère à la main’ (Staters with the hand), attributed to the Picto-santones, with a profile in Armorican style. The geographical area of it's origin is mainly the Pictones territory rather than the Santones territory.
6.42 gr