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1/4 Stater with tattooed cheek and wolf
| Issuer | Aulerci Eburovices |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
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| Diameter | 14 mm |
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| Reverse description | Stylized Celtic horse leaping to the right, depicted in the disjointed, abstracted manner characteristic of Gaulish numismatic art. A charioteer or driving figure appears above the horse, fragmented into geometric and curvilinear elements. Beneath the horse, a wolf is depicted to the right, a distinctive iconographic feature identifying this type within the Aulerci Eburovices series. The composition fills the flan with dynamic, swirling forms typical of late La Tène coinage, with pellets or decorative elements occupying the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Aulerci Eburovices occupied territory centered around modern Évreux in Normandy, and their coinage developed in near-total isolation from the Mediterranean monetary tradition. The facial markings on this type — almost certainly derived from an ancestral Gaulish artistic convention rather than representing literal tattooing — became a regional identifier so consistent across dies that numismatists use it to anchor the entire Eburovican attribution.
DT 2396 is among the lighter quarter-stater fractions, reflecting the progressive gold debasement common across northwestern Gallic tribes during the decades of Roman encroachment before Caesar's campaigns consolidated the region by 51 BC.