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Quinarius
| Issuer | Uncertain Central European Celts (Uncertain Central and Eastern European Celts) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 30 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Celticized schematic male figure running right with head turned back to left, rendered in a highly abstracted La Tène artistic style. The figure holds a torc in the left hand and a serpent in the right hand, both attributes rendered in stylized linear form. The body is depicted with simplified, almost geometric limbs characteristic of Central European Celtic coinage of the late republican period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The quinarius denomination was adopted by Celtic tribes across Central Europe not through invention but imitation — Roman quinarii circulating along trade routes became the template, then were progressively abstracted over generations of copying until the original imagery dissolved into pure geometric convention. This particular type sits at the end of that devolutionary chain, its origins traceable to prototypes circulating during the late Republican period when Roman commercial penetration of the Danubian and Rhineland zones was accelerating rapidly.
Attribution to a specific tribe remains contested. The overlapping Flesche, Castelin, and de La Tour references reflect decades of scholarly disagreement over workshop assignment.