Denier with helmeted head CVBIO

Obverse description	Stylized male head facing left in the Gallic artistic tradition, wearing a helmet whose base is rendered in beaded relief. The facial features — eye, nose, and lips — are sharply pointed and schematically rendered, characteristic of late La Tène Celtic coinage. Sideburns and the neck area are also delineated by rows of beading, imparting a highly decorative, linear quality to the effigy. The overall style reflects the abstracted portraiture common to the Nitiobroges tribe of Southwestern Gaul.
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Reverse lettering	CVBIO
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Additional information	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.