| Ön yüz açıklaması |
Bare male head facing right, rendered in a schematic Gallo-Belgic style with stylized hair indicated by incised lines above the cranium. The legend ARG AMBACT is disposed in the field, partially behind the neck and partially before the face, in large Latin capitals. The portrait is set within a plain, slightly irregular border typical of cast Celtic coinage of the late first century BC. |
| Ön yüz yazısı |
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| Ön yüz lejandı |
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| Arka yüz açıklaması |
A bovine figure — an ox — depicted in profile facing right, with the head turned frontally toward the viewer in a distinctive three-quarter perspective. The animal is rendered in a robust, stylized Gaulish artistic tradition, with the body occupying the central field. A laurel wreath encircles the entire design, framing the ox within its borders. A vertical object, possibly a spear or standard, appears to the right of the animal. The flan is irregular and slightly ragged at the edges, consistent with the cast production technique. |
| Arka yüz yazısı |
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| Arka yüz lejandı |
Giriş yapın ayrıntıları görmek için |
| Kenar |
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| Darphane |
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| Basma adedi |
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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.