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Stater
| Issuer | Aedui |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | A biga (two-horse chariot) in motion to the right, driven by a stylized charioteer depicted on the near side of the car with limbs rendered in an abstracted, Celtic decorative manner. Beneath the horses appears a triskelion motif, a distinctive apotropaic device commonly found on Aeduan coinage. The horses are rendered with characteristic La Tène dynamism, with elongated bodies and exaggerated musculature, typical of the Gaulish Celtic artistic idiom. |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 100 BC) |
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The Aedui were a Gallic tribe occupying the Saône-Rhône corridor whose close alliance with Rome — they were formally styled "brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people" by the Senate — made them politically anomalous among the tribes Caesar would later spend years subduing. Their electrum coinage predates that alliance and reflects a monetary tradition rooted in trans-Alpine trade networks rather than Roman influence. The alloy itself varies noticeably across the series, with gold content declining over time in a pattern consistent with deliberate debasement rather than metallurgical inconsistency.