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GAUL, Northeast. Suessiones. Circa 60-50 BC. AV Quarter Stater (12mm, 1.36 g, 1h). Celticized head of Apollo right / Horse leaping right; carnyx(?) above, A and pellet-in annulet below, pellet-in-annulet to right. Delestrée, “Les monnayages en or de la Gaule belgique,” in RN 152 (1997), p. 116-7, VI and fig. 21; D&T 329; Depeyrot, NC VI 83 (Suessiones) and 170 (Ambiani); Scheers Series 26a, Class I; de la Tour 8606; Triton VII, lot 1225 (same dies). Toned, flan crack. Good VF. Very rare.
The types are similar to those of the Ambiani, but with a distinctive broken-line style of eye used by the Suessiones. Find spots indicate a production site around the sanctuary of Digeon in the Somme department. The style would serve as the prototype for early uninscribed issues of the Ambiani in southeastern Britain, whose quarter staters are very similar, but lacking any eye and replacing the carnyx(?) with a wheel.
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