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Denarius
| Issuer | Eravisci |
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| Year | 75 BC |
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| Currency | Denarius |
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| Obverse description | Diademed head of Venus facing right, rendered in the Celtic La Tène artistic tradition with stylised, flowing linear treatment of the hair and facial features. The diadem is indicated by a series of curved lines across the brow. The portrait, while derived from Roman Republican prototypes, exhibits characteristic Celtic abstraction in its elongated proportions and schematic modelling. The field is plain and the flan edges are irregular, as is typical of barbarian imitative coinage of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Eravisci were a Celtic tribe settled in the region of Pannonia, roughly corresponding to modern northwest Hungary, whose coinage closely imitated Roman Republican denarii — so closely, in fact, that their issues circulated alongside Roman prototypes without obvious friction. This blurring was almost certainly deliberate, allowing the tribe to participate in Roman-adjacent trade networks without issuing a visibly foreign currency.
The degree of Romanization in Eraviscan coinage is unusually advanced for a Danubian Celtic group of this period, suggesting sustained and direct contact with Roman merchants well before formal provincial organization of Pannonia under Augustus.