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Bronze with eagle and cross
| Issuer | Carnutes |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Stylized male head facing right in the Celtic artistic tradition, rendered with schematic, curvilinear features. The hair is depicted as flowing, deeply incised lines radiating outward from the crown, characteristic of Gaulish coinage. The eye is rendered as a prominent circular pellet, and facial contours are abstracted into bold, sweeping curves. The field is plain and unlettered, consistent with the aniconic aesthetic of Carnutes bronze issues. |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 1 BC) |
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The Carnutes occupied the territory around modern-day Chartres and Orléans, and held a position of unusual religious authority among the Gallic tribes — Caesar records that the annual druidic assembly for all of Gaul was convened in their territory. This small bronze belongs to a late series produced as Roman political pressure in the region intensified through the first century BC, culminating in the tribe's devastating reprisal massacre of Roman traders at Cenabum in 52 BC, which served as the signal that ignited the broader revolt under Vercingetorix.