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MDC Monnaies de Collection

169 - GAUL - CELTIC Carnutes. PIXTILOS bronze coin, Class III, fea…
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GAUL - CELTIC Carnutes. PIXTILOS bronze coin, Class III, featuring a bird and the letters ‘ND’ (second half of the 1st century, c. 30–10 BC). LT.7070 - DT.2467 - RIG.224d - IDF CAR 8; Bronze – 3.95 g – 16 mm – 9 h MP specimen no. 122 in the book “Surréelles Monnaies Gauloises”, by Samuel Gouet and Marc Petit – acquired from Y. Cellard in 2003. The obverse is slightly short, with a complete reverse but a slightly off-centre obverse. Attractive, dark green, glossy patina. Very Good to Superb / Very Good. The PIXTILOS series is classified in the *Nouvel Atlas* as part of the “PIXTILOS and TITIVS peri-Aulerci group”. Highly Romanised, this series is said to be “better represented amongst the Aulerci Éburovices than amongst the Carnutes”. The origin is thought to lie south of the Seine, from the Carnutes-Eburovices border to the coast, and these bronzes may have come from several workshops (see *Nouvel Atlas*, Volume II, p. 114). B. Foucray, for his part, maintains the attribution to the Carnutes, associating them with the CATAL bronzes. He distinguishes these “widely distributed” bronzes into two groups, according to weight (heavy for four classes and light for the others). Our bronze corresponds to CAR-8, classified as a light bronze. Of the 67 specimens now studied, the average weight is 3.12 g. Here again, the provenances do not allow us to “form a clear opinion on the workshop responsible for this issue”. It should be noted that “the limited distribution along the Lower Seine Valley does, however, rule out a workshop in the north of the civitas”.
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About the sale A selection of coins and medals from the collection of an amateur collector from Burgundy (Part 2)
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Auction time 09/05/2026 at 9:00 AM
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