Celtic Gaul
VOLCAE TECTOSAGES
Toulouse area
2nd-1st Century BC
AR (Silver) Drachm 2.70 g. 12mm (about 1/2 in.)
Celticized "Cubist head" Male Head.
Reverse: Cross consists of four quadrants each adorned with a crescent, ball, sling, ax, ellipse.
Ref. BMC Celtic 60. Castelin 71. Near VF typical off-center strike.
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Ancient Greek Coinage ~ Celtic Gaul (Present day France)
Ancient Celtic Coinage The SEQUANI
Western Europe Central Gaul 70-50 BC
Silver Quinarius. c. 2g. 13mm. cf. U.S. dime which is 17.9mm.
Stylized head left, with hair in ringlets--unusual double image.
Reverse: SEQVANOIOTVOS. Stylized boar standing left.
Ref. CCCBM II 408ff; de la Tour 5351.
NGC Certified, Graded Ch XF (Choice Extremely Fine). Finest Style, Attractive Celtic Head! Well Centered.
Sequani, Celtic people in Gaul, who in the 1st century BC occupied the territory between the Saone, Rhone, and Rhine rivers, with their chief city at Vesontio (modern Besancon). Quarrels with the Aedui led them to call in the German Ariovistus, who defeated the Aedui but occupied Sequanian territory in modern Alsace and gradually raised his demands. Together with the Aedui, the Sequani appealed to Julius Caesar (58 BC). He expelled the Germans but compelled the Sequani to restore all Aeduan land they had seized. (Britannica).
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