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Potin with filiform horse La Tène type
| Issuer | Sequani |
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| Year | 60 BC - 50 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (60 BC - 50 BC) |
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The Sequani occupied territory roughly corresponding to modern Franche-Comté and were among the most politically active Gallic tribes in the decades before Caesar's campaigns. Their alliance with the Arverni and the Germanic chieftain Ariovistus — who they had invited across the Rhine to help defeat the rival Aedui — ultimately destabilized the region enough to give Caesar his opening justification for intervention in 58 BC. These potin pieces circulated in precisely that charged moment.
Potin itself — a cast leaded bronze — was a characteristically northeastern Gallic monetary choice, distinct from the struck coinage favored further south and west.