Catalog
Potin à la grosse tête laurée - Sequanes
| Issuer | Sequani (Gallia Celtica) |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
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| Diameter | 19.2 mm |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust rendered in schematic Celtic style, featuring a large, disproportionate laureate head filling most of the flan. The facial features are boldly modelled in low relief, with a prominent circular eye rendered as a concentric ring, a broad nose, and an open mouth. The hair is suggested by radiating pellets and curved relief lines flanking the face, and the overall treatment is highly stylised, characteristic of the Sequani potin casting tradition. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised quadruped, interpreted as a boar or horse, depicted in left-facing profile occupying the central field. The animal is rendered in schematic relief with a raised dorsal line and summary treatment of the limbs. Above the animal's back appears a large circular pellet or ring motif, and curvilinear lines fill the surrounding field, all consistent with the La Tène decorative vocabulary characteristic of Sequani cast potin coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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