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1/4 Stater with simplified profile class VI
| Issuer | Parisii |
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| Year | 50 BC - 10 BC |
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| Diameter | 14 mm |
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| Obverse description | Stylized Celtic profile effigy facing right, rendered in the La Tène artistic tradition with highly schematized features. The hair is depicted as a series of curved lines terminating in tight scrolled volutes. The mouth is characteristically formed by a torc motif, a hallmark of Parisii coinage of this class. Before the face, an S-shaped element curls upward, terminating in a loop above a small globule in the field. The overall treatment reflects the progressive abstraction typical of late Gaulish quarter-stater coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (50 BC - 10 BC) |
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The Parisii occupied the Île de la Cité in the Seine long before Caesar's Gallic Wars made their territory a Roman military objective. By the late first century BC, the progressive abstraction of their gold stater coinage had reached a point where the original Macedonian prototype — itself derived from Philip II's issues — was nearly unrecognizable. The quarter stater denominations degraded furthest and fastest, driven by repeated reduction of gold content and die-cutting by craftsmen working increasingly from existing coins rather than any canonical model.
DT#86 falls within Delestrée and Tache's classification of the latest Parisii issues, suggesting production continued well after the Roman conquest of 52 BC.