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Quinarius at reversed delta KALETEDOY
| Issuer | Lingones |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
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| Diameter | 11.5 mm |
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| Reverse description | A bridled horse advances to the left, rendered in the schematic Gallo-Celtic style with elongated limbs and a stylized body. A reversed delta symbol (Δ inverted) is prominently placed between the horse's legs, serving as the principal type-identifying control mark for this emission. The legend KALETEDOY appears in the field, likely denoting a tribal magistrate or issuing authority. Pellets and linear devices are scattered around the horse, filling the field in typical Lingonian fashion. The flan is irregular and the striking slightly off-center, consistent with hand-hammered Celtic coinage of this period. |
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| Reverse lettering | KALETEDOY |
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The Lingones occupied territory in what is now the Haute-Marne and Côte-d'Or regions of eastern Gaul, positioned at a crossroads between Germanic pressure from the north and Roman commercial expansion pushing up the Rhône-Saône corridor. Their coinage — including this quinarius — circulated during a period when tribal monetary systems were being drawn, reluctantly and unevenly, into the gravitational pull of the Roman denarius economy. The reversed delta in the KALETEDOY legend is the distinguishing feature separating this variety from related Lingones issues catalogued under LT#8291.