Gold Stater with anthropomorphic horse

The Aulerci Cenomani occupied territory roughly corresponding to the modern Sarthe department, with their principal center at Vindinum — present-day Le Mans. Their coinage developed under sustained influence from Armorican and Belgic traditions while maintaining a distinctly local idiom, which is precisely what produced the striking stylistic abstraction seen on this type. By the mid-first century BC, their political autonomy was narrowing rapidly under Roman pressure following Caesar's Gallic campaigns, and coin production among the Cenomani effectively ceased as tribal structures were dismantled and absorbed into the new provincial order.