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Bronze ΔEIVICIACOS with horse and boar
| Issuer | Suessiones |
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| Year | 60 BC - 30 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Stylized bust facing right rendered in the characteristic La Tène Celtic artistic tradition, with flowing, curvilinear lines suggesting hair or a laurel wreath. The design is highly abstracted, with pellets and scroll motifs filling the field around the head. The surface bears a dark olive-green patina consistent with an ancient bronze flan. The legend ΔEIOYIKIIA appears in Greek characters, partially visible around the bust. The flan is irregular in shape, typical of hammered Gaulish potin or bronze coinage of the Belgic tribes. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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The Suessiones, whose territory centered on modern Soissons in northern Gaul, were among the most powerful of the Belgic tribes in the mid-first century BC — Caesar himself noted their king Diviciacus had held authority over both Belgic Gaul and parts of Britain. Whether the name rendered here as ΔEIVICIACOS commemorates that same ruler or a successor is unresolved, but the Greek-letter rendering of a Gaulish name points to a mint operating with at least some Mediterranean scribal influence.
The type falls within the period of Caesar's Gallic Wars and their immediate aftermath, when tribal coin production across the region was collapsing under Roman pressure.