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Unique ID: 63
This coin is Gallo Belgic D (GB-D) “Branch Type”. Although classed as GB-D because of its obverse, it doesn’t really fit into the overall type, which shows a clear image evolution. The obverse features the classic two-men-in-a-boat motif, and the reverse features a forked line that resembles a branch. A faint bar comes off the top of this line (when oriented with the two forks to the left). It is likely that this die was a copy of a GB-Ca2 reverse which then became worn and then broke, turning the crooked line in these types into a fork. If this is the case then it’s unclear which GB-Ca2 reverse might have been copied, or if this is from the die that broke or a subsequent copy of the broken die.
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