The town was important to the Celtic Mediomatrici tribe before it was conquered by Julius Caesar.
Archeologists recently discovered over 40,000 Roman-era coins during a dig in a French village. The treasure trove of ancient coins were found in three ceramic storage vessels that had been buried between 1,700 and 1,800 years ago. The team from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) was digging in the village of Senon in northeastern France, roughly 60 miles from the Luxembourg border. Senon was one of the main cities of the Mediomatrici tribe. This Celtic tribe lived in and around northern France during the Gallic Wars, when Julius Caesar conquered parts of present-day France, Belgium, and Switzerland between 57 and 50 BCE.
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