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Bronze of Epenos
| Issuer | Meldi |
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| Year | 60 BC - 40 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Stylized male head facing right, rendered in the abstracted La Tène artistic tradition, with wildly flowing hair depicted as sweeping linear strands radiating from the crown. The facial features are schematically rendered, with a prominent eye and curved chin. The legend EPENOS appears in the field, distributed around the effigy, identifying the issuing authority or chieftain. Pellet ornaments and curved decorative elements fill the surrounding field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Meldi were a small Belgic people settled along the Marne valley, roughly centered on modern Meaux. Their bronze coinage is poorly documented in ancient sources — they appear only briefly in Caesar's Gallic War, noted as a tribe whose territory he passed through rather than subdued outright. The dating of this type to the mid-first century BC places its production squarely within the decades of Roman military pressure that progressively dismantled the monetary autonomy of Belgic Gaul.
The attribution to Epenos remains a working hypothesis based on legend readings across die variants catalogued under DT 587.