Drachm with negroid head S75 variant

The Volcae Tectosages occupied the region around Tolosa (modern Toulouse), and their political fortunes collapsed permanently in 121 BC when Rome established the province of Gallia Narbonensis, cutting off the tribe from its broader trade networks. Coinage continued under that shadow for decades, likely serving internal exchange rather than any wide commercial circuit. The S75 variant designation places this piece within a die-study subdivision of LT 2976, distinguishing it from the main series through specific stylistic deviations that accumulated as local celators worked increasingly far from any Mediterranean prototype.