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Obol with AR
| Issuer | Volcæ Areocomici |
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| Year | 76 BC - 49 BC |
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| Weight | 0.46 g |
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| Obverse description | Crude stylized head facing right, rendered in the Celtic artistic tradition with schematic facial features. The hair is depicted with a series of arched lines above the brow, and the face is presented in profile with a prominent eye and simplified nose. The monogram or letters AR appear in the lower field beneath the bust. The overall design reflects the debased Hellenistic influence characteristic of late Gaulish silver coinage of the Volcae Areocomici. |
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| Obverse lettering | AR |
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The Volcae Arecomici were a Gaulish tribe occupying the region around Nemausus — modern Nîmes — who maintained a degree of monetary autonomy well into the Roman provincial period. This small fractional silver was struck during decades of increasing Roman administrative pressure following the organization of Gallia Narbonensis as a province in 118 BC, a process that slowly absorbed local minting authority without immediately ending it. LT#2646 sits in a series documented by La Tour whose attribution to this specific tribe remains secure through find-site evidence concentrated around the lower Rhône valley.