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Quinarius with crosslet and rowel
| Issuer | Aedui |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Stylized helmeted head facing left, rendered in the schematic Celtic artistic tradition with bold, abstracted features. The helmet is suggested by sweeping linear elements above the cranium, while the facial profile is reduced to essential curves and pellets. The design is enclosed within a beaded border circle, characteristic of Gaulish silver coinage of the late La Tène period. The field is plain with no legend or inscription. |
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| Mintage | ND (80 BC - 50 BC) |
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The Aedui occupied a strategically pivotal position in central Gaul — powerful enough to style themselves "brothers of the Roman people" yet deeply entangled in the inter-tribal conflicts that Caesar would later exploit to justify his campaigns. Their silver quinarii follow the debased, reduced-weight tradition that spread across Gaulish coinage during the late second and first centuries BC, as tribes adapted Roman monetary forms to local production habits with varying degrees of metallurgical discipline.
The crosslet and rowel combination places this piece within a narrow classificatory cluster under Delestrée-Tache's broader Aeduan sequence, with LT 5099 representing one of the more precisely attributed types in a series where die links and findspot distribution still drive most scholarly arguments about chronology.