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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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| Value | 1/4 Stater |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylized Celtic anthropomorphic head facing left, rendered in the La Tène artistic tradition. The cheek bears distinctive tattoo markings, a characteristic decorative motif of Gaulish coinage. A pronounced, sweeping lock of hair curls dramatically around the ear, with the remaining hair depicted in flowing relief lines radiating from the skull. The facial features are schematized, with a pronounced eye rendered in high relief and a simplified nose and chin typical of Aulerci Eburovices quarter stater coinage. |
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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.