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Silver Quinarius
| Issuer | Aedui |
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| Year | 75 BC - 35 BC |
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| Weight | 1.73 g |
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| Obverse lettering | SEGVSIAVS |
| Reverse description | Nude standing figure of Hercules facing, rendered in a robust Celtic artistic style, with the right arm raised and the left arm resting upon a large club set to the left. A lion skin or quiver appears to the right in the field. The abbreviated legend ARVS appears in Latin characters to the left of the figure, likely a shortened tribal or magistrate designation. |
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The Aedui occupied a peculiar political position in late Iron Age Gaul — nominally allied with Rome since at least the early second century BC, yet deeply entangled in the intertribal conflicts that ultimately gave Caesar his pretext for intervention after 58 BC. Their silver quinarii, struck across a span that brackets the Gallic Wars almost precisely, reflect a minting tradition that borrowed the Roman quinarius format while retaining distinctly Celtic stylistic conventions. Whether production continued into the 30s BC under Roman provincial reorganization or tapered off at conquest remains an open question in the scholarship.