Carnutes. Bronze coin featuring a horse, a wild boar, and a disc, CAR 18, Class 1 ND (second half of the 1st century B.C.).

LT. missing - DT.2453 - IDF CAR 18, Class 1; Bronze - 2.87 g - 16 mm - 7 h
MP specimen No. 133 in the book “Surréelles Monnaies Gauloises,” by Samuel Gouet and Marc Petit—acquired from S. Gouet in 2006—MONNAIES XV, No. 1171.
A coin of exceptional quality with a magnificent reverse but an incomplete obverse on the front of the face. Beautiful dark, lustrous green patina with a flash of patina on the chin. Superb.
This specimen was one of the first to be published, as recently as 2002 in MONNAIES XV (even though this type had already appeared in 1840 in J. Lelewel’s Atlas); it is illustrated as a type specimen in the *Revue d’Archéologie d’Île-de-France*, a regional catalog of struck bronzes, by B. Foucray, p. 359, fig. E. He studied 16 specimens of this Class I (average weight 2.51 g). Class II is much rarer, and the broken line in front of the face is replaced by two crescents forming an X and a pentagram. The horse is harnessed in Class I, but unrestrained in the rare examples of Class II. The wheel always appears to have 4 spokes in Class I, whereas it has 4 (A and C) or 8 (B and D) in Class II.