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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8243690, member: 26430&quot;]I&#039;ve showed these coins before, but they fit many themes! Many Roman coins exaggerated their emperors&#039; exploits in war and captive-taking (especially later ones), but the Julius Caesar &amp; Hostilius Saserna series pretty accurately conveyed the conquest of Gaul. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s my opinion -- not <i>only </i>mine, but certainly not universal -- that Vercingetorix is portrayed on the two coins (Caesar&#039;s rev., Saserna&#039;s obv.). I believe the Gallia (as Pallor) coin was also based on a real-life captive Gallic model (perhaps even a wife or relative of Vercingetorix?), at least for some of the obverse dies like this one, which were highly &quot;realistic&quot; in style (others were clearly of an &quot;idealized&quot; and more abstract artistic style).</p><p><br /></p><p>The arms and war trumpets are also depicted with attention to accurate details (unfortunately mine has lost a bit on the top). I believe those two figures actually were trotted back to Rome and held in captivity until they could be displayed in Caesar&#039;s triumph (at which Vercingetorix was probably publicly killed; if he had a surviving wife/daughter she may have been kept as an Imperial slave/hostage of some kind). They were also symbolic, of course, and <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/captives-trophy-8-or-9-examples-from-julius-caesar-to-constantine-others-if-you-have-them.374729/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/captives-trophy-8-or-9-examples-from-julius-caesar-to-constantine-others-if-you-have-them.374729/">inspired four centuries of Two Captives-and-Trophy coinage</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451472[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Master Die of the Dreadlocked Gallia&quot;:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451473[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, there were Vercingetorix&quot; dies had a similar hyper-realistic portrait. This one is very worn, so I&#039;m not quite sure if it was from a &quot;realistic&quot; or a lesser die (still conveys the &quot;idea of Vercingetorix&quot; if not a full likeness). Not certain if the Celts used war chariots with <i>two horses </i>as depicted on the reverse, but I believe they did use horse-drawn war chariots, so that may be an accurate depiction too:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451474[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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