TYPE Ancient Greece, the Remi (Comata, Northern Gaul), 1st c. BC, bronze or potin AE17, 3.35g DESCRIPTION . Obv: Three jugate heads (triumvirs Octavian, Antony and Lepidus?) left, Latin legend RE[MO] Rev: Victory driving biga left, Latin legend REMO (from REMORVM?) REFERENCE: D&T 593, She 519, DelaT 8040, LE 137, Bla 386 GRADING: VF / AVF, dark brown patina, some rev. red adhesion, rare ORDER INFO: G3284, $345 A rare and interesting type. While the reverse sports a slightly stylized biga rendition along the general lines of many Celtic monetary issues of the Greco-Roman era, the obverse - executed in fine style - is quite rare and specific. Very little readily available commentary can be found on this, and for a summary one has to dig back more than 100 years, to a rare in its own right book, "Traite« des monnaies gauloises" (1905), by Adrien Blanchet. There (ch. XVI, p. 380-1), the discussion lists the known at the time interpretations from simply from "three Gauls" and personifications of the three peoples that founded the "principatus" of Remi, through the three heads of Mercury or the Celtic divinity Kernunnos, to the Second Triumvirate of Rome (citing Duchalais, Hucher, Robert, and Rollin and Feuardent). It is not clear how much the latter idea is supported by hoard eveidence, but it appears tempting on other grounds, as the only other "3 jugate head" numismatic type is another rare but confirmed Second Triumvirate provincial from Ephesus (heads right; RPC I 2569, Cop 357).