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Bronze with horse turning its head
| Issuer | Ambiani |
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| Year | 60 BC - 50 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | A stylized horse depicted in profile facing right, its head turned sharply to the left and biting its own tail, rendered in the schematic Celtic artistic tradition. Below the horse, a horizontal barrier composed of four bars is visible in the lower field. The peripheral field is decorated with ringlets and various abstract pellet-and-arc motifs characteristic of Gaulish bronze coinage of the Ambiani tribe. |
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| Reverse description | A stylized horse in full gallop depicted facing left, rendered in a schematic Celtic manner with angular, abstracted body forms. Beneath the horse in the lower field, an indistinct small animal figure faces left, its details heavily worn and partially illegible. The overall composition is consistent with the reductive, symbol-laden artistic conventions of late Iron Age Gaulish bronze coinage attributed to the Ambiani. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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