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Bronze with running character and disks
| Issuer | Uncertain Gallia Belgica tribes |
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| Year | 55 BC - 30 AD |
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| Value | AE |
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| Obverse description | Naked male figure depicted in the kneeling-running (potnia theron) attitude, facing right, rendered in the schematic La Tène artistic style typical of Belgic Celtic coinage. Various ancillary symbols — including pellets and abstract curvilinear motifs — are scattered throughout the field. The anatomy of the figure is highly stylised, with limbs reduced to geometric forms. The flan is irregular, as is characteristic of struck Celtic bronzes of this period. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The attribution to Gallia Belgica remains working shorthand for a cluster of issues that resist clean tribal assignment — decades of find-spot analysis have done little to narrow the issuing group beyond a broad regional guess. The date range itself spans Caesar's conquest and the full reorganization of the province under Augustus, meaning this type could predate Roman administrative control or postdate it entirely.
DT#308 places it within a typological sequence rather than a firm political attribution.