NM·3

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Coin

Coin type

Coin type: Warasdin/A, Lejeune A3
Description: obverse right-facing male head and legend, reverse left facing trotting horse and legend
Material (main component): silver
Average diameter: 23.5 mm2.35 cm <br />0.925 in <br />
Average thickness: unknown
Average weight: 10.23 g0.0102 kg <br />0.0226 lb <br />
Workmanship: cast

Archaeological culture: unknown
Date:

Number of known pieces: 2
Area of circulation:
Mint / Main site: unknown
Coordinates (approx.): none

Coin legend

Idealised transliteration: ko / ·e·kr 
Idealised original script: K dO3 d / punctuation2 dE2 dpunctuation2 dK dR d
Position: front, back
Orientation:
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: North Italic script (prob. Venetic alphabet)
Letter height: 00 cm <br />0 in <br />
Number of letters: 7
Number of words: 2
Number of lines: 2
Inscription type: minting authority
Language: unknown
Meaning: unknown

Alternative sigla: none

Sources: Lejeune 1971: 127

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, PID: 616 f., 6*bis(a), Pautasso 1976: 482 f., Geiser et al. 2012: 92.

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.