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Drachm with Apollo head
| Issuer | Uncertain Cisalpine Gallic tribes |
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| Year | 225 BC - 175 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A rooster stands facing right in the central field, its plumage rendered with stylized detail typical of Cisalpine Gaulish engraving. A six-pointed star or celestial symbol appears to the left behind the bird. The legend CΛLEИC is inscribed to the right of the figure in a partially retrograde or irregular Latin-influenced script, likely referencing a tribal name or mint authority. The composition is enclosed within a beaded border on the irregular flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (225 BC - 175 BC) |
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The Cisalpine Gauls — settled across the Po Valley since the fourth century BC — produced imitative silver coinage by copying Massalian drachms, progressively distorting the prototypes through successive die generations until the originals became barely recognizable. These pieces were almost certainly struck to pay mercenary obligations and facilitate trade with Greek and Etruscan communities rather than as civic currency in any formal sense. The chronology narrows to this half-century largely because of archaeological deposit evidence from northern Italian hoards, not from any surviving written record of the issuing groups.