Drachm

The Lepontii occupied the Alpine valleys around what is now the Ticino and Lake Maggiore region, sitting at the intersection of transalpine trade routes that connected the Po plain to the Celtic north. Their coinage is among the earliest attributed to a Cisalpine Celtic group, and the attribution itself remains contested — some scholars have assigned these issues to neighboring tribes based on findspot distributions rather than any written record. Die links between specimens suggest a relatively small and controlled output, not a large civic mint.