Obol with AR

The Volcae Arecomici were a Gaulish tribe occupying the region around Nemausus — modern Nîmes — who maintained a degree of monetary autonomy well into the Roman provincial period. This small fractional silver was struck during decades of increasing Roman administrative pressure following the organization of Gallia Narbonensis as a province in 118 BC, a process that slowly absorbed local minting authority without immediately ending it. LT#2646 sits in a series documented by La Tour whose attribution to this specific tribe remains secure through find-site evidence concentrated around the lower Rhône valley.