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Quinarius TOGIRIX
| Issuer | Sequani |
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| Year | 80 BC - 30 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Stylised male head facing right, rendered in the schematic Celtic artistic tradition with distinctive linear hair strands depicted as a series of parallel curved ridges sweeping across the crown. The facial features are summarily indicated, with a circular pellet eye and a curvilinear nose and jaw. The treatment reflects the La Tène decorative style characteristic of Sequani coinage, with bold relief modelling on a compact, irregularly-shaped flan. No legend appears on this face. |
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| Reverse lettering | TOGIRIX |
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The Sequani occupied the territory of modern Franche-Comté and were among the more politically volatile of the Gallic tribes — they famously invited Ariovistus and his Germanic forces across the Rhine in the 70s BC to use as a weapon against the rival Aedui, a decision that destabilized the region for decades and gave Caesar part of his pretext for intervention. TOGIRIX was a Sequanian magistrate or chief whose name appears on this small silver issue, placing him within the generation that lived through that catastrophic miscalculation and its consequences.