Obol with negroid head

The Volcae Tectosages occupied territory around Tolosa (modern Toulouse), a city whose name appears in Roman sources specifically because of a catastrophic sacred treasury incident in 106 BC — the consul Caepio plundered the town's temple gold and silver, was subsequently routed by the Cimbri, and the "Cursed Gold of Tolosa" became a byword in Roman moralizing literature for generations. These tiny obols were struck well after that episode, during a period of gradual Roman administrative absorption of Gallia Narbonensis.

The negroid head type on LT 3351 is a recognized iconographic subgroup among southern Gaulish silver fractions, likely derived from Massaliote prototypes that themselves drew on North African or Ptolemaic coin imagery transmitted through Mediterranean trade networks.