Description

Billon stater of the Veneti tribe. Class V ‘wheel type’ stater struck around 80–50 BC. Small chip at 3 o’clock on the reverse.

Provenance: MDC Monaco sale 9, lot 43 / Piolaine Hoard (2011) dispersed at Drouot on 5 March 2020.

This specimen comes from the Piolaine hoard discovered in 2011 at Saint-Aubin-du-Pavail, part of which entered the MAN (ref. 6579–7066), while the owner’s share was dispersed at Drouot on 5 March 2020. The esse issuing from the charioteer’s mouth is quite exceptional and appears in the published portion of the hoard in the Musée des Antiquités Nationales on only four examples (nos. 7042, 7044–7045, and 7056)