Oars. Bronze REMO / REMO to the triumvirs and the bige ND (second half of the 1st century B.C.).

LT.8040 - DT.593 - Scheers 519-520; Bronze - 2.84 g - 16 mm - 3 h
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Regarding this bronze coin, S. Scheers published an interesting article in the September 1992 issue of the BSNF; in it, she acknowledges that “the obverse of this bronze coin, which features three busts side by side, is less easy to explain because its depiction is far from common.” In the last century, A. Duchalais identified the triumvirs of 43 B.C., Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian. This interpretation is very satisfactory, especially since a bronze coin struck in Ephesus bears three similar heads side by side, whose identification as the triumvirs of 43 B.C. seems beyond doubt. The strong resemblance might suggest that the Ephesus bronze served as a model for the “Rémi” coins. The chronological problem (since our Gallic bronze was found in the trenches at Alesia) seems explainable by the imprecise origin of the coins found in the 19th century and described as coming from the trenches... The most recent dating, placing them in the pre-Augustan period, seems to support S. Scheers’ view