Quinarius Manching type group A

The Manching type quinarii take their name from the oppidum at Manching, near modern Ingolstadt, one of the largest Celtic settlements north of the Alps and a major metalworking center. Excavations there recovered significant quantities of coin blanks and production debris, confirming local manufacture rather than simple importation of Roman prototypes. The Vindelici occupied the foothills and river valleys between the Danube and the Alps, and their coinage circulated within a network of tribal exchange that Roman expansion would sever entirely by the Augustan campaigns of 15 BC.