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Obol with N
| Issuer | Volcæ Areocomici |
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| Year | 90 BC - 49 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Stylized bust facing right in the Celto-Iberian artistic tradition, rendered with schematic linear features characteristic of late Gaulish small silver coinage. The hair is depicted in radiating or striated lines above the forehead, and the neck and facial profile are summarily executed. The letter N appears in the field before the face, serving as a control mark or ethnic abbreviation. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, consistent with hand-struck Celtic obol production. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Volcae Arecomici occupied the region around Nemausus — modern Nîmes — and struck small silver fractions as Rome's grip on Gallia Narbonensis tightened following its formalization as a province in 118 BC. The "N" on this piece almost certainly references Nemausus itself, a practice of abbreviated civic identification seen across several Gallic silver series of the late Republic period. That the type carries no LT reference suggests it either postdates Blanchet's 1905 corpus or was insufficiently documented at the time of compilation.