NM·15

Coin Type
Coin Type:	Lejeune C1
Description:	obverse: right-facing head of a young man (Apollo?), reverse: right-facing head of a horse, legend below the head along the edge
Material (main component):	silver


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Workmanship:	unknown

Archaeological Culture:	unknown
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Number of Known Pieces:	2
Area of Circulation:	Rhone Valley
Mint / Main Site:	unknown
Coordinates (approx.):	none
Coin Legend
Idealised Transliteration:	.a.lkouesi
Idealised Original Script:
Variant Reading:	iailkouesi
Position:	back, lower area
Orientation:	0°
Direction of Writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic Script
Letter Height:	0
Number of Letters:	8 - 10
Number of Words:	1
Number of Lines:	1
Inscription Type:	minting authority
Language:	unknown
Syntactic Analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	maybe "of Alkovesos"?

Alternative Sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 331

Sources:	Brenot 1998: 25 & 27 & 24 (fig. 5 & 6) & 26 (map) 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)

Known pieces:

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.
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)
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.