Vergobret

Bronze coin with the name Cisiambos Cattos, designated as vercobreto on the reverse with an eagle; the inscription around the quatrefoil on the obverse authorizes the coin as a semis of the Gallic Lexovii as a people.

The vergobret (Gaulish uergobretos or uercobretos) was the chief magistrate among certain Gallic peoples. The office is described by Caesar among the Aedui in 58 and 52 BC, and is also attested after the Roman conquest among other Gallic peoples through epigraphic and numismatic evidence.

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