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Potin with Devil head Class II

Issuer Turoni
Year 80 BC - 50 BC
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Technique Cast
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (80 BC - 50 BC)
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The Turoni occupied the territory around the Liger (Loire) valley, and their potin issues — cast rather than struck — place them among the tribes whose coinage production predates significant Roman disruption in central Gaul. The "Class II" designation distinguishes a later degenerative phase of this type, where the imagery has abstracted considerably from earlier prototypes, a progression well-documented across Gaulish potin series as die-cutters worked increasingly from copies of copies rather than original models.

The DT#3509 variant attribution and absence from Latour's corpus suggests a subtype identified after the major reference works were compiled — not unusual for Turoni potin, where the cast nature of production generated considerable variability between individual pieces.

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