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Silver Stater with situla
| Issuer | Aulerci Diablites |
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| Year | 100 BC - 40 BC |
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| Value | 1 Silver Stater |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of a deity or heroic figure facing right, rendered in the stylized La Tène artistic tradition. The hair is arranged in distinctive crescent-shaped locks, with the two lowermost locks elongated into a trilobed or pellet-terminated pattern characteristic of Aulerci Diablites coinage. The facial features are schematically modeled, with the overall composition displaying the fluid, curvilinear aesthetic typical of Gaulish silver staters of the late Iron Age. |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 40 BC) |
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The Aulerci Diablintes occupied territory roughly corresponding to modern Mayenne in northwestern Gaul, a tribe small enough that their coinage series is narrow and their civic identity largely reconstructed through numismatic evidence alone. The situla — a bucket-shaped vessel associated with ritual and feasting — appears on their staters at a moment when Gaulish tribes were under intensifying Roman pressure following Caesar's campaigns, making the persistence of indigenous iconographic choices a deliberate act of cultural assertion rather than artistic convention.
DT 2169 and 2170 represent two die-linked variants within the type; distinguishing them in hand requires close attention to the disposition of the pellet groupings.