Treasure of the Osimer
The treasure of the Osimer or the coin find of Laniscat ( French Trésor Laniscat ) in Brittany in France was discovered in 2007. It is a complete treasure trove of 545 coins found in the garden of a farm. “Le trésor des Osimes” is considered to be the region 's largest depository find . The find consists of 58 staters and 487 quarter staters .
Around 320 BC The geographer Pytheas came to the area of the Osimer ( French Osismes ). His journey must have led him via Cape Belerion in Cornwall into the Irish Sea and through the North Channel to the Hebrides . In the 2nd century BC The Breton peninsula was divided between the Venetians and the Osimers, who owned half of the present-day departments of Finistère and Côtes-d'Armor . The Venetians gave the city of Vannes its name and were considered by Julius Caesar to be the most powerful people in Aremorica . The history books have made this argument their own. The Laniscat treasure trove, however, sheds new light on the Osimers, who in addition to bartering, possibly also traded with the Greeks and Romans.
In the late 2nd century BC Every city in Macedonia minted its coins, which mostly consisted of the imitation of the stater that Philip II minted. These coins show stylized images. A man with a spear, a boar, a horse's head and flowers can be seen on the coins of Laniscat. The composition of the alloys used shows a stamp between 75 and 50 BC. Perhaps the treasure was hidden during the Roman conquest of Gaul . The coins may also have got here because Philip II and Alexander the Great paid their Gallic mercenaries with staters.
In 1988 a remarkable 48 cm high statue called: "Le Barde à la lyre - The Bard with the Lyre" was discovered near Paule in the Côtes-d'Armor department , in the area of the Osimer.