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Stater with winged character
| Issuer | Osismii |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
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| Value | 1 Stater |
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| Reverse description | A horse galloping vigorously to the left in the typical disjointed Celtic stylization, with exaggerated musculature and limbs rendered as curved abstract elements. Beneath the horse's body, between its legs, is a small crouching winged figure — a distinctive Osismian iconographic motif — depicted in a squatting posture with outstretched wings. The composition fills the flan dynamically, with the horse's body occupying the central field and the subordinate winged figure anchoring the lower register. The entire design is executed in the energetic, highly stylized late Iron Age Armorican tradition. |
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| Mintage | ND (80 BC - 50 BC) |
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The Osismii occupied the westernmost tip of Armorica — the Crozon and Léon peninsulas of what is now Finistère — placing them at the geographic and cultural edge of the Gaulish world. Their gold coinage drew heavily on earlier Armorican traditions ultimately derived from the Macedonian stater of Philip II, though by this period the abstraction had progressed so far that the original figurative sources are barely recoverable. The "var." designation against DT#2206 suggests a die or stylistic deviation not fully catalogued by Delestrée and Tache, which is unsurprising given how loosely the Osismii's output was standardized.