a silver coin with a head of a man and a woman on it
MDC Monnaies de Collection

Estimate €400
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GAUL - CELTIC Aedui. Quinarius depicting a standing warrior and the inscription DVBNOCOV / DVBNOREX, Class I ND (c. 52 BC). Obverse: DVBNOCI. Female head facing right, with straight hair in plaited strands falling in braids down the neck. Reverse: [On the right, the inscription DVBNOREX, from bottom to top]. A Gallic warrior on the left, wearing a helmet, walking to the left and holding a wild boar standard with both hands. DT.3211 - LT.5026; Silver - 1.88 g - 13 mm - 1 h Acquired from Bourgey in 2003. Fairly well centred, with a partial legend on the obverse and none on the reverse. The motifs are well rendered; the effigy is detailed on the obverse and the bearer of the boar-standard on the reverse is also well depicted. With a grey patina. Very Good to Superb condition. Dumnorix was a high-born Aeduan chieftain, the younger brother of the druid Diviciacos and son-in-law of Orgétorix, king of the Helvetii. Although he came from a Gallic people allied with the Romans, he conspired against Julius Caesar and refused to follow him in his invasion of Britannia (now Great Britain), according to *The Gallic Wars* (5.6). Caesar had him killed in 54 BC.
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