Armorica / Veneti. Billon stater, Series 353A, Class IV, with a pointed and upturned snout, featuring a wild boar (late first half of the 1st century B.C. and the Gallic Wars).

DT.2295 - MAN 6866-7035; Billon - 6.6 g - 23 mm - 10 h
MP specimen no. 65 in the book “Surréelles Monnaies Gauloises,” by Samuel Gouet and Marc Petit—acquired from J. Creusy in 2007.
Stater struck on an oval blank with well-centered designs. The obverse is softly struck, while the reverse is more vigorously struck. Gray patina typical of billon. Very Fine to Very Good / Very Good to Superb.
This specific type has long been associated with the coins of Amanlis. This hoard of perhaps 10,000 staters was discovered in 1835, but a few lots were later recovered by J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu. 310 coins from this hoard are now housed in the Rennes Museum. The Piolaine hoard also contained a large number of coins of this type (see MAN 6866–7035). On the obverse, the neck is adorned with a Y-shaped motif, but some coins also feature a small “esse” (MAN 6884), a globule (MAN 6885, 6988), a dotted ring (MAN 6920, 6953) or perhaps three globules arranged in a triangle (MAN 7020) on the cheek