NM·15

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Coin
Coin type
Coin type:	Lejeune C1
Description:	obverse: right-facing head of Apollo, reverse: right-facing head of a horse and legend
Material (main component):	silver
Average diameter:	unknown
Average thickness:	unknown
Average weight:	unknown
Workmanship:	cast
Archaeological culture:	unknown
Date:
Number of known pieces:	7
Area of circulation:	Rhône valley
Mint / Main site:	unknown
Coordinates (approx.):	none
Coin legend
Idealised transliteration:	.a.lkouesi
Idealised original script:
Variant reading:	iailkouesi
Position:	back
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic script
Letter height:	00 cm <br />0 in <br />
Number of letters:	8 - 10
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Inscription type:	minting authority
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'of Alkovesos' (?)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 331
Sources:	Lejeune 1971: 130

Images

Silver coin (BN 2540) of type NM·15 with iailkouesi legend

Silver coin (BN 2539) of type NM·15 with iailkouesi legend

Coin legends iailkouesi of coins NM·15 (as shown by Mommsen)

Commentary

Seven specimens of the coin type are known to us:
1. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2537: 2.48 g, 14x15 mm; Pautasso 1976: tav. X.32; image in the Gallica catalogue
2. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2538: 2.38 g, 14.5x16.5 mm; image in the https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b11284391m Gallica catalogue]
3. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2539: 2.6 g, 14.5x15.5 mm; Pautasso 1976: tav. X.29; image in the Gallica catalogue
4. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2540: 2.36 g, 14x15 mm; Pautasso 1976: tav. X.31; image in the Gallica catalogue
5. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2541: 1.85 g, 14.5x15.5 mm; Pautasso 1976: tav. X.28; image in the Gallica catalogue
6. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2542: 2.55 g, 13x16 mm; image in the Gallica catalogue
7. Pautasso 1976: tav. X.30; 2.7 g; Museo di Leone, cat. no. 339

• Brenot 1998: 24-27

No. 1 has deviating (and less strange) orthography: ^?. Cf. NM·16 for a legend with dubious initial iota.

Bibliography

Brenot 1998	Claude Brenot, "A propos des monnaies à légendes lépontiennes de Transalpine", in: Fondazione "Andrea Pautasso" per gli studi di numismatica (ed.), Forme di contatto tra moneta locale e moneta straniera nel mondo antico. Atti del Convegno internazionale, Aosta 13-14 ottobre 1995. A cura di Giovanni Gorini, Padova: Esedra Editrice 1998, 23-37.