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Denier with helmeted head CVBIO
| Issuer | Nitiobroges |
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| Year | 90 BC - 10 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A horse depicted in motion to the left, rendered in the stylized Celtic manner typical of Gaulish silver coinage. The legend CVBIO appears above the horse's croup, serving as the principal inscription attributing this issue to the Nitiobroges. A torc — a sacred neck-ring of great symbolic importance in Celtic culture — is placed between the horse's legs, occupying the lower field. The composition is sparse, with the horse and torc filling the flan in a dynamic yet schematic arrangement characteristic of late La Tène numismatic art. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Nitiobroges occupied the Lot and Garonne valleys in what is now southwest France, and their coinage reflects a tribe caught between sustained Aquitanian cultural influence and the creeping pressure of Roman expansion following Caesar's campaigns of the 50s BC. The CVBIO inscription likely denotes a magistrate or chieftain name — a practice borrowed from Roman administrative coinage rather than native Gaulish tradition.
LT 4123 is among the sparser documented types in the Larousse-Tournaire corpus, with find concentrations clustering around Agen, the probable tribal center known to Romans as Aginnum.