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GAUL, Central. Uncertain tribe. Circa BC. Æ Unit (26mm, 7.51 g, 12h). Bearded head right, wearing diadem; COM to left, BVCIO(retrograde S) to right / Goat stepping left; three annulets arranged in a triangle above, BVCIO in exergue. Depeyrot, NC –; D&T –; CCCBM III –; RIG 78 corr. (description), otherwise unpublished. Deep green-brown patina with earthen dusting, slightly off center. EF. Extremely rare, only one other known, in the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale (Saint Germain en Laye; illustrated by a line drawing in RIG).
Ex Triton XXIV (19 January 2021), lot 836 (hammer $3250).
This coin will be published in a future article in the SENA journal. In it the authors argue that, as typical of issues after the Gallic Wars, this coin's types are influenced by Roman Republican issues. The obverse is likely inspired by a denarius of Sextus Pompey struck circa 37/6 BC, featuring the diademed, bearded head of Neptune (Crawford 511/2b), while the reverse may be inspired by a denarius of Cn. Plancus struck circa 55 BC, featuring a Cretan goat (Crawford 432/1). Based on a variety of factors, they place the issue somewhere in the Bourges region.
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