NM·11
From Lexicon Leponticum
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Coin Type | |
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| Coin Type: | Lejeune B3, Pautasso "Salassi" d |
| Description: | obverse: small circle, three parallel lines, and triangle (?) with grid pattern, reverse: circle with point, legend, and trident |
| Material (main component): | gold |
| Average Diameter: | 2 cm0.787402 in |
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| Average Weight: | 6.68 g0.00668 kg 0.0147269 lb |
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| Archaeological Culture: | La Tène C, La Tène D, unknown |
| Date: | 2nd / 1st century BC |
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| Number of Known Pieces: | 1 |
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| Mint / Main Site: | unknown |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 22' 16" N, 6° 52' 22" ELatitude: 46.3712263 Longitude: 6.8728071 |
Coin Legend | |
| Idealised Transliteration: | kasiloị |
| Idealised Original Script: |      
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| Variant Reading: | kasiloṣ (Mommsen, Whatmough, Pautasso, Wiblé)
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| Position: | back, centre |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of Writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | North Italic Script |
| Letter Height: | 0 |
| Number of Letters: | 7 |
| Inscription Type: | unknown |
| Language: | unknown |
| Syntactic Analysis: | NP |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative Sigla: | none |
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| Sources: | Lejeune 1971: 129 Mommsen 1853: 202 & pl. I (.2) Pautasso 1966: 137 & 140-141 & pl. CVII (.2) Whatmough 1933: 138 Wiblé 2000: 236 |
Images
 Gold stater with kasiloi (or kasilos) legend from Port-Valais (Wallis/Valais)
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Commentary
The coin was found in 1825 in Port-Valais (Wallis/Valais). It has been kept in the Cantonal Museum of Sion (numismatic cabinet), but today all traces of it seem to be lost (Pautasso 1966: 140-141, Wiblé 2000: 236).
Bibliography
| Lejeune 1971 | Michel Lejeune, Lepontica, Paris: Société d'Édition "Les Belles Lettres" 1971. (reprint of the article "Documents gaulois et para-gaulois de Cisalpine", Études Celtiques 12/2, 1970-1, pp. 357-500) |
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| Mommsen 1853 | Theodor Mommsen, "Die nordetruskischen Alphabete auf Inschriften und Münzen", Mittheilungen der Antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zürich 7 (1853), 197-260. |
| Pautasso 1966 | Andrea Pautasso, Le Monete Preromane dell'Italia Settentrionale, Varese: Centro di Studi Preistorici ed Archeologici 1966. |
| Whatmough 1933 | Joshua Whatmough, The Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy. Vol. 2, Part 3: The Raetic, Lepontic, Gallic, East-Italic, Messapic and Sicel inscriptions, Cambridge/Mass.: Harvard University Press 1933. |
| Wiblé 2000 | François Wiblé, "Un monnayage spécifique des Ubères?", in: Raffaele Carlo De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (Eds.), I Leponti tra mito e realtà, Locarno: Gruppo Archeologia Ticino 2000, 235-239. |
