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Denarius with helmeted head to the right and carnyxes
| Issuer | Aulerci Cenomani (Gallia Armorica) |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | A stylized horse in motion facing left, rendered in the schematic and highly abstracted manner typical of late Armorican Celtic coinage. The body of the animal is depicted with elongated, simplified limbs, and a prominent curved spine, with scattered pellets and linear elements filling the field around the figure. Above the horse, a disjointed rider or charioteer element may be discerned, consistent with the iconographic tradition derived from degraded Macedonian stater prototypes. The flan is irregular and shows the characteristic surface texture of a hammered Celtic silver piece, with no legend or inscription present. |
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| Mintage | ND (80 BC - 50 BC) |
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The Aulerci Cenomani occupied territory roughly corresponding to the region around present-day Le Mans, a Gaulish people distinct enough from their Aulerci neighbors — the Eburovices and Diablintes — to maintain their own coinage tradition. The carnyx, a bronze war trumpet whose bell was shaped as an open animal mouth, was carried into battle specifically to unsettle enemies through noise; its appearance on coinage served as deliberate martial currency, circulating among warriors whose Roman adversaries were, by the mid-first century BC, pressing deeper into Armorican territory each campaigning season.