The Pixtilos type is, potentially, one of the most interesting celtic transitional issues towards the end of the Roman Republic. This is due to the political and military influence Rome held over the Gallic tribes after Caesar’s Gallic War. It is now believed, after work published by S. Scheers and others, that these coins are actually imitations of various consular denarii! This is perhaps not too surprising, given the massive influx of Roman denarii to Gaul between 40 and 30 BC. Which is the same period this coin was struck. Not only did Roman influence come in the form of denari, but there is a tentative theory that the tribal leader Pixtilos had in fact been held by Rome as a hostage, similar to Juba II of Mauritania. If this was the case, and while there is no textual evidence it is plausible, then when Pixtilos returned home to Gaul he would know intimately the power of Roman numismatic propaganda.