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Bronze with bull SVTICOS Class I
| Issuer | Veliocasses |
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| Year | 50 BC - 40 BC |
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| Weight | 3.44 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Veliocasses occupied the Seine valley around what is now Rouen, and their bronze coinage was struck during a period when Gallic tribes were navigating the brutal administrative reorganization that followed Caesar's conquest. The SVTICOS inscription likely names a local magistrate or chieftain — a practice seen across several Belgic and Celtic issues of this period as tribal authorities attempted to assert identity through coinage even as Roman pressure reshaped political structures.
Class I designation within this type distinguishes specific die characteristics documented by Delestré and Tache.