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Quinarius Nauheimer Type
| Issuer | Vangiones |
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| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Anthropomorphic 'birdman' figure standing and facing left in a highly schematized La Tène style, the body rendered as a compact, rounded form with vestigial limbs. The figure carries or is associated with a prominent open torque or ring displayed prominently to the left. The entire design is surrounded by a border of raised pellets. Pellet groupings appear in the field around the figure, a characteristic decorative element of the Nauheimer type series. The overall composition reflects the abstract zoomorphic and anthropomorphic iconographic tradition of eastern Gaulish Celtic coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Vangiones occupied the middle Rhine region, roughly centered on what is now Worms, and are attested by Caesar as one of the Germanic peoples invited into Gaul by the Sequani during the rivalry with the Arverni. Whether that makes them "Germanic" or Celticized is a dispute that has not been settled. Their coinage belongs to the Nauheimer type — a reduced silver quinarius class named after the hoard found at Bad Nauheim in Hesse — whose distribution maps almost exactly onto the densely contested zone between Caesar's campaigns and the Rhine frontier consolidation of the late 1st century BC.