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Potin with character seated in front
| Issuer | Remi |
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| Year | 60 BC - 40 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Frontal facing figure depicted seated cross-legged, rendered in the schematic La Tène style characteristic of Belgic Gaulish coinage. The hair is arranged in two lateral braids flanking the face; the figure holds a torque in the raised right hand and grasps one of the braids with the left hand. The overall design is enclosed within a peripheral bead border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Remi occupied the territory around modern Reims, and their potin coinage was struck during a period of escalating Roman pressure that culminated in Caesar's Gallic campaigns. Potin — a cast tin-rich bronze alloy — was the dominant small-denomination medium across northeastern Gaul precisely because it could be produced without the infrastructure of a struck coinage. These were cast in clay molds, often in linked strips, then broken apart.
DT 220 / LT 8145 places this type firmly within the established Remi sequence, though the casting variation between individual specimens is considerable.