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Bronze with net
| Issuer | Uncertain Paris area tribes |
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| Year | 60 BC - 40 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Stylized bust facing left with curly hair rendered in a schematic Celticizing style; a torque is visible at the neck. Two hook-shaped devices project behind the nape of the neck, and a scroll motif appears in front of the face. In the exergue, a net device serves as the defining type element of this series. |
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| Reverse description | A stylized horse advancing to the right, rendered in the abstracted Celtic tradition. A star appears between the legs, with an esse symbol and a ringlet below the horse. Above, a pentagram occupies the upper field. In front of the horse, a wheel with eight spokes is depicted, surmounted by a small esse, with a granulated or gritted surface treatment. |
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The "net" motif that names this type appears across several related bronze issues from the Paris basin, almost certainly struck by one of the Parisii or neighboring tribes during the final decades before Caesar's campaigns permanently disrupted indigenous minting in the region. Attribution remains unsettled — LT 7704 and DT 680 cluster these pieces together, but the issuing authority is genuinely unknown, which is itself a historical artifact of how thoroughly Roman conquest erased the administrative structures that would have recorded it.