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Stater
| Issuer | Gaul Veneti |
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| Year | 60 BC - 50 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Stylized male head facing right in the La Tène artistic tradition, with dramatically elongated hair rendered as large, sweeping locks terminating in S-shaped curls. The entire effigy is encircled by a beaded cord or pellet border, a hallmark of Armorican Celtic coinage. The facial features are abstracted in keeping with late Gaulish die-engraving conventions, with the hair dominating the field. The design reflects the pronounced decorative idiom of the Veneti tribe of northwestern Gaul. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Veneti were a maritime tribe of Armorica whose confrontation with Rome came to a head in 56 BC, when Caesar's legate Decimus Brutus destroyed their fleet in the Gulf of Morbihan — effectively ending Venetic political independence. Coin production of this type likely straddles that event, with earlier strikes circulating among a still-autonomous people and later ones produced under increasingly constrained circumstances.
The "var." designation against LT#6667 is worth noting: Venetic silver staters show meaningful die variation across the series, and the specific traits separating this piece from the type coin should be documented against Delestrée-Tache's corpus before attribution is considered settled.