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Potin with crosslets, hairstyle with globules
| Issuer | Durocasses |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
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| Weight | 2.2 g |
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| Reverse description | Three crosslets arranged in a triangular formation occupy the central field, flanked on either side by curved lines that frame the composition. Above the crosslets, three pellets are disposed in a triangular cluster. The ground line at the base is composed of a series of short vertical strokes, a common convention in Gaulish potin reverse designs. The overall layout is geometric and schematic, characteristic of the late La Tène period coinage of the Durocasses tribe. |
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| Mintage | ND (80 BC - 50 BC) |
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The Durocasses were a minor Gallic people centered around modern Dreux, in the Eure-et-Loir. Their potin coinage — cast rather than struck, distinguishing it immediately from the hammered silver of neighboring larger tribes — circulated during the decades of Roman encroachment that culminated in Caesar's conquest of 58–51 BC. DT 2508a is distinguished from the base 2508 type by the crosslet arrangement, a subtle die-level variation that Delrieu and Tache use to argue for at least two distinct production episodes within the type.