1/4 Stater with hippophorus and flower

The Namnetes occupied the territory around the mouth of the Loire — roughly modern-day Nantes, which preserves a corrupted form of their name. Their coinage was struck in the decades immediately preceding Caesar's Gallic campaigns, during which the tribe was absorbed into Roman Gaul following the broader suppression of the Atlantic Armorican coalitions. The quarter stater format reflects a fragmented regional economy operating through small-denomination gold, likely tied to mercenary payment and inter-tribal exchange rather than large commercial transaction.

The DT#2193 variant designation signals a die or typological divergence from the principal catalogued specimen — Delestrée and Tache's reference work for Gaulish coinage remains the authoritative source, and variant attributions within it carry weight.