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Bronze with turned horse
| Issuer | Pictones |
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| Year | 80 BC - 60 AD |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Androcephalic horse advancing to the right with head emphatically upturned, a hallmark type of the Pictones series. The horse's tail is rendered in a dramatically curled volute, and an overdeveloped ithyphallic member is prominently depicted between the hind legs, a fertility or apotropaic symbol common in Armorican and Pictonian Celtic coinage. The body of the horse is stylized with schematic limbs typical of late Gaulish bronze coinage. The field is plain and devoid of any legend or secondary symbols. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Pictones occupied the Atlantic coastal territory roughly corresponding to modern Poitou, and their bronze issues circulated during a period that spans the Gallic Wars — Caesar's campaigns through the region in the 50s BC would have disrupted minting activity and potentially displaced coin use entirely. Whether this type predates the conquest or persisted into the early imperial period as a tolerated local currency remains genuinely contested among specialists of Gaulish numismatics.
DT 3485 is among the lighter Pictonian bronzes, consistent with a late series reduction.