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Silver Denier with horse
| Issuer | Treveri |
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| Year | 80 BC - 20 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Stylized Celtic head facing left, rendered in an angular, geometric manner characteristic of Gallic coinage. The hair is depicted as two prominent S-shaped curves flanking the face, conveying a schematic rather than naturalistic treatment. The nose is rendered in a distinctive hooked or angular form, referred to in Celtic numismatic literature as a 'Hakennase.' The face exhibits the bold, abstracted draftsmanship typical of the Treveri tribal coinage tradition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Treveri occupied the Moselle valley in what is now Luxembourg and western Germany, and were among the more militarily assertive of the Belgic tribes — Caesar devoted considerable attention to their repeated attempts to ally with Germanic groups across the Rhine during the Gallic Wars of the 50s BC. This coin falls squarely within that turbulent window, likely struck during or just after Roman pacification of the region.
The DT#199 classification places it within Delestrée and Tache's tightly argued typology for Belgic silver, which distinguished Treverian issues partly on metal fineness — notably higher than many contemporaneous Gaulish deniers.