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Bronze with bird and vase INS Class VIII
| Issuer | Senones |
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| Year | 100 BC - 45 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Stylized barbarian head facing right, the hair rendered in large, elongated locks swept rearward in characteristic Gaulish artistic style. The eye is rendered as a prominent raised pellet or boss. A beaded or balled torc is depicted beneath the neck, a common attribute on coinage of the Senones. The overall treatment reflects the abstract, schematic idiom of late La Tène Celtic coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Senones occupied a stretch of central Gaul roughly corresponding to modern Seine-et-Marne, and by the late second century BC were producing a recognizable bronze coinage that circulated alongside issues from neighboring Carnutes and Meldes. This class sits toward the end of that sequence, with the terminus post quem almost certainly pushed forward by Caesar's campaigns of 52–51 BC, which effectively ended autonomous Gaulish minting across the region.
DT 2638 and LT 7550 align this piece within a well-documented typological group, though die studies on Senonian bronzes remain less exhaustive than those for their silver series.