Quinarius Nauheimer Type

The Vangiones occupied the middle Rhine region, roughly centered on what is now Worms, and are attested by Caesar as one of the Germanic peoples invited into Gaul by the Sequani during the rivalry with the Arverni. Whether that makes them "Germanic" or Celticized is a dispute that has not been settled. Their coinage belongs to the Nauheimer type — a reduced silver quinarius class named after the hoard found at Bad Nauheim in Hesse — whose distribution maps almost exactly onto the densely contested zone between Caesar's campaigns and the Rhine frontier consolidation of the late 1st century BC.