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Drachm
| Issuer | Uncertain Aquitania Gallic tribes |
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| Year | 240 BC - 220 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Completely plain and uninscribed reverse, presenting a flat, featureless field with no design elements, legends, or symbols. The flan shows natural surface irregularities and casting texture consistent with primitive hammered Celtic coinage of the early third century BC. The absence of any imagery or lettering is a defining characteristic of this early Aquitanian issue. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The silver drachms of uncertain Aquitanian tribes derive ultimately from Massalian prototypes, themselves copies of Rhodian issues, passed hand to hand through trade networks running up the Rhône corridor and west into Garonne country. Attribution remains contested precisely because no ancient source names the specific groups striking in this region during the third century BC, and die studies have yet to produce a coherent grouping tight enough to assign confidently to a single issuing authority.