Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Bronze CALIIDV
| Issuer | Arverni |
|---|---|
| Year | 100 BC - 52 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Beardless male bust facing right, the neck adorned with a torc rendered in relief. A lozenge enclosing a central pellet appears behind the nape of the neck, serving as a decorative symbol characteristic of Arvernian coinage. The legend CALIIDV is presented within a cartouche positioned in the field before the face, a distinctive epigraphic feature of this type. The portrait is executed in the stylised La Tène artistic tradition, with schematic facial features typical of late Gaulish bronze coinage. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The Arverni occupied the volcanic highlands of what is now Auvergne, and their coinage reflects a tribe that had not fully recovered its political footing after Vercingetorix's father, Celtillus, was executed by his own people for allegedly seeking kingship. The CALIIDV series — the legend likely abbreviating a personal name, possibly a magistrate or issuing authority — belongs to the final decades before Caesar's Gallic campaigns extinguished independent Arvernian minting entirely. After the defeat at Alesia in 52 BC, no further autonomous coinage was struck.