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Drachm with hippophorus
| Issuer | Namnetes |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Stylized male head facing right, rendered in the schematic La Tène artistic tradition characteristic of Armorican Gaulish coinage. The facial features are highly abstracted, with a pronounced curved profile and pellet or lenticular elements suggesting the eye. The hair is indicated by raised striations or billeted locks sweeping back from the forehead. The flan is irregular and the relief is worn, consistent with a hammered silver issue of the late Gaulish period. |
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| Reverse description | A horse galloping to the right in the characteristic Armorican style, its body rendered with energetic, schematic line work typical of late La Tène Celtic coinage. Above or beneath the horse appears a human or anthropomorphic figure — the hippophorus motif — clinging to or accompanying the animal, a distinctive iconographic feature of Namnetes issues referenced under DT 4600-4601. Pellet or annulet ornaments are visible in the field, serving as decorative or symbolic fillers. The overall composition is vigorous and deeply rooted in the abstract Gaulish artistic vocabulary. The flan is irregular and the strike somewhat off-center, as is typical of hammered Gaulish silver drachms. |
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| Edge | Plain (irregular) |
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