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Denier VOL with horse and caduceus
| Issuer | Allobroges |
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| Year | 70 BC - 61 BC |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Reverse lettering | VOL |
| Edge | Plain |
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The Allobroges occupied the territory between the Rhône and Isère rivers, and their political history in this precise window is unusually well-documented for a Gaulish tribe. In 61 BC, an Allobrogian embassy to Rome — frustrated by corrupt Roman governors — was manipulated by Cicero into exposing the Catilinarian conspiracy, effectively destroying any chance the tribe had at Roman sympathy. Their subsequent revolt that same year was crushed by Gaius Pomptinus.
The VOL inscription remains unresolved among specialists — whether it abbreviates a magistrate's name, a mint site, or a tribal subdivision is still debated. Blanchet and Delestrée treat it differently, which accounts for the split reference between LT and DT.