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Quinarius with crosslet and rowel
| Issuer | Aedui |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A bridled and strapped horse galloping vigorously to the left, depicted in the energetic, curvilinear style typical of Aeduan coinage. The horse's anatomy is rendered with characteristic Celtic abstraction, with the body articulated by bold relief lines and the bridle and strapping clearly indicated. Above the horse, a small crosslet (cross with equal arms) occupies the upper field, serving as the primary identifying symbol of this type. Beneath the horse, a rowel or spur-wheel motif is positioned in the lower field, further distinguishing this emission within the Aeduan quinarius series. No legend is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Aedui occupied a strategically pivotal position in central Gaul — powerful enough to style themselves "brothers of the Roman people" yet deeply entangled in the inter-tribal conflicts that Caesar would later exploit to justify his campaigns. Their silver quinarii follow the debased, reduced-weight tradition that spread across Gaulish coinage during the late second and first centuries BC, as tribes adapted Roman monetary forms to local production habits with varying degrees of metallurgical discipline.
The crosslet and rowel combination places this piece within a narrow classificatory cluster under Delestrée-Tache's broader Aeduan sequence, with LT 5099 representing one of the more precisely attributed types in a series where die links and findspot distribution still drive most scholarly arguments about chronology.