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Potin with boar Class Ie
| Issuer | Leuci |
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| Year | 75 BC - 50 BC |
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| Diameter | 16.00 mm |
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| Obverse description | Stylized human head facing left, encircled by a headband or diadem; the hair rendered schematically by three distinct locks radiating from the crown, while the neck is indicated by three short parallel lines below. The treatment reflects the abstracted, geometric artistic conventions characteristic of Late Iron Age Gaulish coinage. |
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| Reverse description | A boar standard (enseigne au sanglier) depicted facing left, with a characteristically curled tail; the central shaft is surmounted by a large prominent ringlet flanked symmetrically by two smaller ringlets positioned at the terminals corresponding to the boar's legs. This type of military standard motif is a hallmark of the Leuci tribal coinage and reflects the symbolic importance of the boar in Gaulish culture. |
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The Leuci occupied territory in what is now Lorraine, centered around the Moselle valley, and maintained enough political cohesion to issue their own coinage well into the period of Roman encroachment. Potin — a cast alloy of copper, tin, and lead — was the preferred medium for low-denomination exchange among several Gaulish peoples, and the Leuci relied on it almost exclusively. Their issues are not struck but cast, typically in linked strips or chains pulled from clay moulds, which accounts for the irregular flan edges common to the type.
DT#225 sits in a tightly defined classificatory cluster; Class Ie distinguishes it from related Leuci emissions by specific stylistic degeneration traceable across die generations.