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1/2 Stater with tattooed cheek and wolf
| Issuer | Aulerci Eburovices |
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| Year | 150 BC - 50 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A stylized Celtic horse prancing to the right, its body rendered with characteristic La Tène abstraction featuring globular joints and pellet-tipped limbs. Above the horse appears a highly schematized wolf or feline predator figure, rendered in an elongated, disjointed manner typical of Armorican Celtic coinage. The field is populated with an assortment of secondary symbols including a spoked wheel or ringlet to the lower left, wavy line ornaments, and scattered pellets. The overall composition reflects the progressive abstraction from the original Macedonian stater prototype. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Aulerci Eburovices occupied territory centered around modern Évreux in Normandy, and their gold coinage developed in relative isolation from the mainstream Armorican traditions to the west. The "tattooed cheek" type — named by modern scholars for the distinctive pellet-and-line patterning on the facing — is one of the more regionally specific Gaulish issues, with find concentrations tightly clustered in the Eure valley suggesting very limited geographic circulation.
DT 2394 half-staters are genuinely scarce in any condition. The wolf on this type likely carried totemic or tribal significance, though whether it functioned as a tribal badge or held religious meaning within local Gaulish practice remains unresolved in the scholarship.