Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Bronze with Demos VOLCAE AREC
| Issuer | Volcæ Areocomici |
|---|---|
| Year | 70 BC - 30 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Diademed head of Artemis facing right, her hair arranged in a series of tight curls beneath the diadem, with a wreath depicted to the right of the effigy. The legend VOLCAE arcs around the upper left field in Latin characters. The style is characteristic of late Gaulish provincial coinage, with a somewhat schematized rendering of the deity's features. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The Volcae Arecomici were a Gaulish people settled in the Narbonensis region around modern Nîmes, and by the time this series was struck, they had been operating under Roman provincial administration for decades. Their bronze coinage with the DEMOS legend — a Greek civic term almost certainly borrowed from Massalia's numismatic conventions — reflects the peculiar cultural layering of southern Gaul, where Hellenistic, Celtic, and Roman influences ran together without fully resolving into any one tradition. Massalia's commercial reach into the Rhône corridor was long enough that Greek terminology carried real institutional weight even among inland Gaulish communities.