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Potin with Indian head and boar
| Issuer | Senones |
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| Year | 100 BC - 52 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylized 'Indian-type' head facing right in the La Tène artistic tradition. Six strands of hair are swept back from the face, each terminating in a bulbous pellet. The eye is rendered as a prominent globule in high relief, characteristic of late Gaulish potin coinage. The facial features are abstracted to geometric forms, with the chin and jaw rendered as smooth convex surfaces against a plain field. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Reverse description | A highly schematized boar-sign oriented to the right, rendered in the abstract geometric style typical of Senones tribal coinage. Beneath the boar, three pellets are arranged in a triangular formation serving as a distinctive identifying device for this type. The overall design is bold and low in relief, consistent with the cast production technique, with no surrounding legend or border. |
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The Senones occupied territory in what is now the Yonne and Loiret departments of north-central Gaul, and are best known to ancient historians as the tribe that sacked Rome around 390 BC — a humiliation the Romans never quite forgot. By the first century BC, when these potins were circulating, the Senones had rebuilt as a significant regional power, though Julius Caesar's campaigns would effectively end their political autonomy by 52 BC. Potin casting, rather than striking, was the dominant production method for low-value coinage across much of central Gaul during this period, and the Senones used it extensively.
LT 7445 is well-documented in the corpus of Gaulish coinage, with find concentrations clustering around Sens, the ancient Agedincum and principal Senonian oppidum.