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Potin with boar Class Ij
| Issuer | Leuci |
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| Year | 75 BC - 52 BC |
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| Composition | Potin |
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| Reverse description | A boar-sign facing left with tail tightly curled upward, executed in the abstract, symbolic manner typical of Celtic animal imagery. A lily-shaped or fleur-de-lis-type stem rises from the center of the exergue line, serving as a distinctive tribal identifier for this Class Ij variety. The design elements are arranged within an irregular flan, consistent with the cast production method, and reflect the Leuci workshop's characteristic iconographic vocabulary. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Leuci occupied the upper Moselle valley, their territory roughly centered on what is now Toul in northeastern France. A Germanic-border tribe with close ties to the Treveri, they remained administratively distinct enough to maintain their own coinage through the late Gallic Iron Age. Potin — a cast tin-lead-copper alloy — was the medium of choice for low-denomination exchange across much of northeastern Gaul, and Leuci issues are among the more localized of these, with a relatively tight geographic distribution in the archaeological record.
The LT#9078 variant designation signals a die or typological deviation from the primary catalogued type. Cast rather than struck, die-link studies on Leuci potin are complicated by the nature of the alloy itself.