| Descripción del anverso |
Diademed male head facing right, rendered in a Gallo-Roman artistic style with naturalistic hair detail visible above the diadem. The effigy occupies the full field of the flan, with the neck truncation visible at the lower right. A beaded border encircles the design, following the irregular edge of the flan. |
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| Descripción del reverso |
A horned bull (cornupete) advancing to the left, rendered in profile with muscular detail, standing upon a straight exergue line that divides the field. The legend GERMANVS in the upper field and INDVTILLI in the lower exergual area identify the issuing authority, referencing Germanus, son of Indutillus, a chieftain of the Remi tribe. A beaded border encircles the entire design. |
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The Remi were a Belgic tribe whose capital, Durocortorum (modern Reims), became one of the most Romanized cities in Gaul within a generation of Caesar's conquest. This coin belongs to a group of locally struck bronzes that name a figure — Germanvs Indvtilli — almost certainly a tribal magistrate or dynast operating under Roman administrative sanction in the early Augustan period. The name itself blends Celtic and Latin elements, a linguistic snapshot of a community negotiating between two worlds.
RPC I 506 places this firmly in the provincial Roman framework rather than purely "Gallic," meaning it circulated within a recognized monetary system, not outside it.