Segusiavi

Silver coin series of the Segusiavi elaborating on a Roman denarius of 47 BC. Obverse: helmeted bust with a lance behind the neck, and the inscription SEGVSIAVS, singular of Segusiavi. Reverse: a nude Hercules, next to the inscription ARVS, holds his club in his right hand and reaches out to touch a Gallic iconographical addition, a figure on a base interpreted as Telesphorus or a genius cucullatus.

The Segusiavi (Gaulish: *Segusiauī) were a Gallic tribe dwelling around the modern city of Feurs, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, during the Iron Age and the Roman period. Other important sites within their territory were present-day Roanne, a flourishing center of trade and commercial production even before Roman rule, and Lyon, which was developed as an urban center by the Romans.

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