NM·6.2
From Lexicon Leponticum
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Coin Type | |
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| Coin Type: | double drachma, Lejeune A6, Arslan IV |
| Description: | obverse: right-facing female head with ivy crown (?) and earring, reverse: right-facing stag, vertical separation line, and legend |
| Material (main component): | silver |
| Material Composition: | unspecified silver alloy |
| Average Diameter: | 19.6 mm1.96 cm 0.771654 in |
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| Average Weight: | 7.20 g0.0072 kg 0.0158733 lb |
| Workmanship: | struck |
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| Archaeological Culture: | unknown |
| Date: | (first half of) 4th century BC |
| Date derived from: | unknown |
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| Number of Known Pieces: | 1 |
| Area of Circulation: | "Padanian" region, Alpine region (Arslan) |
| Mint / Main Site: | unknown |
| Coordinates (approx.): | none |
Coin Legend | |
| Idealised Transliteration: | ]eχeθ̣[ |
| Idealised Original Script: | unknown |
| Position: | back, right area |
| Orientation: | 90° |
| Direction of Writing: | unknown |
| Script: | North Italic Script |
| Letter Height: | 0 |
| Number of Letters: | 4 |
| Number of Words: | 1 |
| Number of Lines: | 1 |
| Inscription Type: | minting authority |
| Language: | Lepontic |
| Syntactic Analysis: | NP |
| Meaning: | "Segetu" or "Segedu" (name?) |
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| Alternative Sigla: | none |
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| Sources: | Lejeune 1971: 124-125 & 127 Arslan 2000: 226 Morandi 2004: 507-508 & 510 (fig. 5.1) |
Images
 Silver double drachma with seχeθu legend
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Bibliography
| Arslan 2000 | Ermanno A. Arslan, "La monetazione con legende leponzie e la monetazione preromana dell'area leponzia e insubre", in: Raffaele Carlo De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (Eds.), I Leponti tra mito e realtà, Locarno: Gruppo Archeologia Ticino 2000, 223-233. |
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| 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) |
| Morandi 2004 | Alessandro Morandi, Celti d'Italia. A cura di Paola Piana Agostinetti. Tomo II: Epigrafia e lingua dei Celti d'Italia [= Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica 12.2], Roma: Spazio Tre 2004. |
