The SEQUANI Celts in Gaul. Celtic Male Head/Boar. NGC Certified Choice XF Coin

Description

Celtic Gaul VOLCAE TECTOSAGES Toulouse area 2nd-1st Century BC AR (Silver) Drachm 2.70 g. 12mm (about 1/2 in.) Celticized "Cubist head" Male Head. Reverse: Cross consists of four quadrants each adorned with a crescent, ball, sling, ax, ellipse. Ref. BMC Celtic 60. Castelin 71. Near VF typical off-center strike.
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Ancient Greek Coinage ~ Celtic Gaul (Present day France)
Ancient Celtic Coinage
The SEQUANI
Western Europe
Central Gaul
70-50 BC
Silver Quinarius. c. 2g. 13mm. cf. U.S. dime which is 17.9mm.
Stylized head left, with hair in ringlets--unusual double image.
Reverse: SEQVANOIOTVOS. Stylized boar standing left.
Ref. CCCBM II 408ff; de la Tour 5351.
NGC Certified, Graded Ch XF (Choice Extremely Fine). Attractively Toned Silver, Nicer in hand!
Sequani, Celtic people in Gaul, who in the 1st century BC occupied the territory between the Saône, Rhône, and Rhine rivers, with their chief city at Vesontio (modern Besançon). Quarrels with the Aedui led them to call in the German Ariovistus, who defeated the Aedui but occupied Sequanian territory in modern Alsace and gradually raised his demands. Together with the Aedui, the Sequani appealed to Julius Caesar (58 BC). He expelled the Germans but compelled the Sequani to restore all Aeduan land they had seized.
(Britannica).
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