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Potin with large helmeted head and headband decorated with globules
| Issuer | Sequani |
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| Year | 100 BC - 10 BC |
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| Composition | Potin |
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| Obverse description | Large schematized head facing left, occupying the full width of the flan in characteristic Gallo-Belgic style. The effigy wears a helmet secured by a double parallel headband adorned with a row of globules. The eye is rendered as a hollow void, and a globule is placed at the mouth, reflecting the abstract Celtic artistic idiom. The overall composition is bold and fills the field with minimal surrounding space. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Sequani occupied the territory roughly corresponding to modern Franche-Comté, and their potin issues circulated during a period of intense tribal competition in eastern Gaul — a region Caesar would later describe as among the most strategically contested. Potin, a debased tin-bronze alloy cast rather than struck, was the workhorse coinage of many Gaulish peoples who lacked the silver resources of their neighbors.
DT 3088A is distinguished from the closely related LT 5368 grouping by the pronounced globule decoration on the headband — a detail that has helped scholars sequence the Sequani potin series by die progression. Caesar's campaigns of 58–52 BC almost certainly disrupted production, making pre-conquest and post-conquest attributions within this broad date range genuinely difficult to resolve.