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Stater with tent
| Issuer | Osismii |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (80 BC - 50 BC) |
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The Osismii occupied the westernmost tip of Armorica — roughly the Finistère peninsula of modern Brittany — placing them at the geographic edge of the Gaulish world. Their coinage, produced in the final decades before Caesar's campaigns dismantled tribal political structures across the region, shows strong influence from cross-Channel contact with British minting traditions, which accounts for the highly abstracted idiom their dies employ. Electrum composition at this weight class signals prestige issue rather than routine exchange.
The DT 2209–2212 grouping covers several die variants; attributing any single piece precisely within that range requires careful comparison of the reverse field arrangement.