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Potin à la grosse tête laurée - Sequanes

Descrizione del dritto	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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Bordo	Plain
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Informazioni aggiuntive	The Sequani occupied the territory of modern Franche-Comté, and their potin coinage was likely a local response to the practical need for low-value exchange in a region where silver was controlled or scarce. Potin — a cast tin-bronze alloy — was never struck but poured into molds, which is why these pieces often show casting sprues and irregular surfaces that specialists treat as diagnostics rather than flaws. The type spans roughly three decades during which Caesar's campaigns progressively dismantled Sequanian autonomy, the tribe having made the catastrophic political miscalculation of inviting Roman intervention against the Helvetii in 58 BC.