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Potin with boar
| Issuer | Aulerci Eburovices |
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| Year | 60 BC - 50 BC |
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| Diameter | 15 mm |
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| Reverse description | Stylized boar advancing, rendered in a schematic La Tène Celtic style characteristic of the Aulerci Eburovices tribal coinage. The animal's body is depicted in profile with abstracted limbs and a prominent dorsal spine or bristle ridge suggested by linear relief. Pellet or annulet motifs may appear in the field as secondary decorative elements. No inscription or legend accompanies the design. The overall execution reflects the highly conventionalized imagery of Gaulish potin coinage from the mid-first century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (60 BC - 50 BC) |
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The Aulerci Eburovices, centered around what is now Évreux in Normandy, were among the Gaulish tribes caught directly in the path of Caesar's campaigns of the late 50s BC. Potin — a cast tin-lead-copper alloy — was the workhorse coinage of northern Gaul precisely because it required no striking, only molds, making rapid production possible even under disrupted conditions. DT 2480 is a relatively localized type; Delestrée and Tache's attribution places it firmly within the Eburovican series rather than the broader Aulerci group issues.