a close up of a silver coin with an image of a horse on it
MDC Monnaies de Collection

Estimate €300
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GAUL - CELTIC Remes / Belgium. Quinar or light denarius ATEVLA / VLATOS, var. 1 with the ND pentagram (60–45 BC). Obverse: ATEVLA in front of the bust. Winged bust facing forwards, wearing a torque, with a Romanised head turned to the left. Rev. VLATOS. Animal (horse or bull?) raising its head to the right; an ‘S’ above its back, and below, a pentagram and a crescent beneath the ground line. DT.640 - LT.7191 - Scheers 305; Silver - 1.81 g - 15 mm - 3 h Acquired from Bourgey in 1997. The strike is slightly off-centre on the obverse, but shows the full details of the wings as well as the breasts of the winged Victory. The reverse is particularly complete. The patina is grey. Superb. Series 83 of the New Atlas brings together all these inscribed coins, both homotypic (bearing the legends ATEVLA / VLATOS, SENODON, and CALEDV) and related (CVPINACIOS / VLATOS). Whilst the traditional attribution is to the Remi, the reality appears to be different; the finds are spread across Belgium, from the coast to the Rhine, almost always associated with pre-Augustan military camps (with a camp or sanctuary nearby). The authors of the New Atlas favour “the hypothesis of a supplementary coinage intended for the auxiliary units of the Roman army, which circulated, thanks to military personnel in northern Gaul, during the second half of the 1st century BC.”
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