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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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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | A human-headed horse galloping to the right, rendered in the distinctive schematic Celtic style with the head shown in profile. Disks or pellets are depicted both above and below the horse, serving as decorative field ornaments common to Belgic tribal coinage. The horse's body is stylised with elongated limbs and a flowing mane or tail indicated by curved lines. The human head atop the horse's neck is a characteristic motif of Armorican and Belgic Celtic bronzes, likely derived from earlier Macedonian prototype coinage. No inscription or legend appears on this face. |
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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.