Potin with three fishes

The Lingones occupied the upper Marne and Saône valleys in what is now Burgundy and Champagne, and their potin coinage was cast rather than struck — a distinction that separates Gaulish potin issues from the hammered traditions borrowed from Greek and Roman practice. Cast coins were produced in clay or stone molds arranged in strips, leaving characteristic sprue marks where individual flans broke free. The three-fish type is among the more individualistic issues attributable to this tribe, and the fish motif has been loosely connected to the river-dependent geography of Lingones territory, though no ancient source confirms any deliberate iconographic program.