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½ Gold Stater uniface
| Issuer | Durocasses (Gallia Armorica) |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylized, abstracted rendering of a quadriga galloping to the right, retaining only vestigial elements of the original Hellenistic prototype, including schematic ball-joint forms representing the horses' limbs. The exergue is filled with rows of pellets or corpuscles, a decorative motif characteristic of Armorican Celtic coinage. The overall composition reflects the advanced geometric abstraction typical of late Gaulish gold coinage, with the chariot and horse forms reduced to near-ornamental patterns within the coin's field. |
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| Reverse description | Completely plain and uninscribed, presenting a smooth, flat, convex surface entirely devoid of design, legend, or decorative element, consistent with the uniface nature of this Gaulish half-stater. The flan shows the characteristic irregular, slightly domed profile produced by the hammered technique. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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