NM·1

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Coin

Coin type

Coin type: Lejeune A1
Description: obverse left-facing male head with laurel wreath, reverse left facing trotting horse and legend
Material (main component): silver
Average diameter: 22.5 cm8.858 in <br />
Average thickness: unknown
Average weight: 12.72 g0.0127 kg <br />0.028 lb <br />
Workmanship: cast

Archaeological culture: unknown
Date:

Number of known pieces: 1
Area of circulation:
Mint / Main site: unknown
Coordinates (approx.): none

Coin legend

Idealised transliteration: ues· 
Idealised original script: punctuation2 sS dE sV s
Variant reading: aes·
punctuation2 sS dE sA s
Position: top, back
Orientation: 180°
Direction of writing: sinistroverse
Script: North Italic script (prob. Venetic alphabet)
Letter height: 00 cm <br />0 in <br />
Number of letters: 4
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Inscription type: minting authority
Language: unknown
Meaning: unknown

Alternative sigla: none

Sources: Lejeune 1971: 126

Commentary

1. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 9913: 12.72 g, 22x23 mm; image in the Gallica catalogue

De La Tour 1892: tav. VI.9913, Blanchet 1905: 148, Göbl 1973, 31, 38, 65, 69, 75, 97, 98, 126, Taf. 19.6, PID: 616 f., 6*bis(b), Pautasso 1976: 482 f., Geiser et al. 2012: 92 f.

Bibliography

Blanchet 1905 Adrien Blanchet, Traité des monnaies gauloises. Vol. I, Paris: 1905.
De La Tour 1892 Henri de la Tour, Atlas des Monnaies Gauloises, Paris: 1892.
Geiser et al. 2012 Anne Geiser, Julia Genechesi, Nicola Scoccimarro, "Monnaie et écriture au second âge du fer autour de l'arc alpin. Une nouvelle approche des statères épigraphes attribués naguère aux Salasses", Études Celtiques 38 (2012), 77–129.