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Potin with dummy and bull facing right

Issuer Aedui
Year 60 BC - 50 BC
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Diameter 19.5 mm
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Obverse description Highly stylized and strongly degenerated human effigy facing left, the head adorned with a headband or diadem. The facial features are rendered in a schematic Celtic manner, with a pronounced, exaggerated nose and a bifid or forked neck treatment. A lock of hair sweeps backward from the crown, a characteristic decorative convention of late La Tène coinage. The overall style reflects the progressive abstraction typical of Aeduan potin issues of this period.
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Reverse description A bull advancing to the right, rendered in the abstracted La Tène artistic style, positioned above an exergue line. The tail is raised and terminates in a distinctive torc- or omega-shaped curl, a hallmark typological feature of this Aeduan potin series. The body of the bull is rendered with the bold, simplified forms characteristic of Gaulish cast coinage, with minimal ground-line detail below the figure.
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