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Bronze with ox ARG AMBACT Class I
| Issuer | Mediomatrici |
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| Year | 40 BC - 20 BC |
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| Weight | 3.86 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ARG AMBACT |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Mediomatrici occupied territory centered on modern Metz, and their bronze coinage was still circulating during the final decades before Augustus reorganized Gallic monetary production under Roman oversight. The ARG AMBACT inscription — interpreted as a magistrate's name or title — is one of the few explicit legends surviving on Mediomatrici bronzes, making this series unusually legible within a broader corpus of anonymous tribal coinage.
Class I distinguishes this issue from later die progressions in the ox series, a typological refinement established through die-link studies rather than any documentary record.