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Potin with helmeted head and rosette
| Issuer | Senones |
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| Year | 100 BC - 52 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Stylized animal, most likely a boar or bull, depicted in profile facing right, rendered in the highly schematized and abstracted manner characteristic of Gaulish potin coinage of the Senones tribe. The body is formed by bold, flowing curves with limbs reduced to summary appendages, consistent with the La Tène decorative vocabulary. A rosette or pellet motif appears in the field, serving as the secondary design element referenced in the coin's type name. The design is contained within a plain raised circular border on an irregularly shaped cast flan. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Senones occupied a territory centered on modern-day Sens in northern Burgundy, and their potin coinage reflects a tribe that had already seen catastrophic displacement — a branch of the Senones had sacked Rome in 390 BC, and Caesar's campaigns of 52 BC effectively ended their political independence. Potin itself, a lead-tin-bronze alloy cast rather than struck, was a distinctly Gallic monetary solution, produced by pouring molten metal into clay or stone moulds in linked chains.
Cast flan surfaces on this type frequently retain mould-seam traces along the edges.