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Denarius

Issuer Eravisci
Year 61 BC - 1 BC
Type Standard circulation coin
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Reverse script Latin
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Edge Plain
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The Eravisci were a Celtic tribe settled in Pannonia, in the region around modern Budapest, whose coinage closely imitated contemporary Roman Republican denarii — so closely, in fact, that their issues long went unrecognized as local imitations rather than Roman mint products. The copying was deliberate and functional: Roman silver circulated heavily in the region, and a coin that looked Roman passed without friction in cross-cultural trade.

Stylistic drift between the Roman prototype and the Eraviscian copy is the primary diagnostic, with legends often garbled or compressed by die-cutters working from visual templates rather than literacy in Latin.

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