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MDC Monnaies de Collection

171 - GAUL - CELTIC Carnutes. PIXTILOS bronze coin, Class VII, dep…
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GAUL - CELTIC Carnutes. PIXTILOS bronze coin, Class VII, depicting the winged horsemistress ND (second half of the 1st century, c. 30–10 BC). LT.7081 - DT.2471 - RIG.224f - IDF CAR 11; Bronze – 2.89 g – 15.5 mm – 10 h Exemplar MP no. 124 in the book “Surréelles Monnaies Gauloises”, by Samuel Gouet and Marc Petit – acquired from CGB in 2004, MONNAIES 19, no. 443. A fine coin with an extraordinary reverse, though the obverse is unfortunately slightly off-centre. Dark green patina, smooth and lustre, but with small lighter areas on the obverse and a small surface concretion on the reverse. Very Good to Superb / Superb. The PIXTILOS series is classified, according to the *Nouvel Atlas*, within the ‘PIXTILOS and TITIVS peri-Aulerci group’. Highly Romanised, this series is said to be ‘better represented amongst the Aulerci Eburovices than amongst the Carnutes’. The origin is thought to lie south of the Seine, from the Carnutes–Eburovices border to the coast, and these bronze objects 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 coin corresponds to CAR-11, classified as a light bronze. Of the 121 specimens now studied, the average weight is 3.03 g. This bronze coin featuring a horseman is the lightest and most common in the series. Although the location of the mint remains hypothetical, it is possible that the CAR 5, 8 and 11 “constitute three successive issues from the same mint”. The reverse of our specimen is worthy of a “standard coin”, with particularly clear details. The armed female horseman (whether winged or not) is quite rare on Gallic coinage, though not entirely unknown elsewhere, particularly in Armorica and the Centre-West.
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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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