Gold Stater with boar

The Aquitani occupied the southwestern corner of Gaul, between the Pyrenees and the Garonne, and were ethnically and linguistically distinct from the Celtic tribes further north — closer to the proto-Basque population than to the Belgae or Arverni. Their coinage developed under the dual pressure of Mediterranean commercial contact through Narbo and the disruptive northward spread of Roman military campaigning after 125 BC. DT 3635 sits within a cluster of issues whose attribution to specific tribal groups remains unresolved; the boar motif appears across multiple mints in the region, making die-linkage the only reliable tool for narrowing provenance.