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Drachm with rider holding shield
| Issuer | Pictones |
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| Year | 100 BC - 50 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Horseman galloping to the right, seated upon a horse depicted with stylized, energetic limbs in the Celtic artistic tradition. The rider carries a shield or round buckler held outward, rendered in relief, and the horse's mane is indicated by a vertical row of pellets along the neck. Below the horse, an ornamental motif composed of geometric or zoomorphic elements occupies the lower field. The composition is characteristic of the Pictones tribal coinage of western Gaul and closely related to the broader Armorican and Poitevin series. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Pictones were a Gaulish people occupying the territory around present-day Poitiers, their coinage emerging during a period of intensifying Roman encroachment that would culminate in Caesar's Gallic Wars. This drachm belongs to a regional tradition of silver coinage that fragmented into dozens of highly localized types as tribal identities hardened under external pressure — each group asserting distinctiveness through die work rather than political independence they could no longer guarantee militarily.
DT#3346 is well-documented within the Delestrée-Tache corpus, which remains the essential reference for distinguishing Pictonian issues from the overlapping output of neighboring tribes like the Lemovices.