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Bronze with horse and boar
| Issuer | Aulerci Eburovices |
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| Year | 60 BC - 50 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Stylized Celtic head in left profile, rendered in the characteristic La Tène artistic tradition. The hair is depicted by a series of S-shaped curves arranged around the cranium, conveying movement and decorative abstraction. A prominent ringlet or pellet motif appears in the field before the mouth. The facial features are boldly modeled with a large eye, pronounced nose, and schematized chin, reflecting the indigenous Gaulish celator's interpretation of classical portraiture. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Aulerci Eburovices occupied territory centered around modern Évreux in Normandy, and like several neighboring Gaulish peoples, they struck bronze coinage during precisely the decade that Caesar's campaigns were dismantling the political structures that made such independent minting possible. This issue falls squarely within that window of compression — local authority asserting itself while the military situation deteriorated irreversibly after 58 BC.
DT#2451 is well-attested in hoards from the Seine basin.