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1/2 Gold Stater uniface

Issuer Durocasses
Year 80 BC - 50 BC
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Value 1/2 Stater
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (80 BC - 50 BC)
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The Durocasses were a Gallic people centered around present-day Dreux, in the Eure-et-Loir. Their coinage is among the thinner-documented series in the Celtic Gaulish corpus, and uniface staters — struck on one die only, leaving the reverse blank or showing only the flan's surface — reflect either a deliberate regional minting convention or a pragmatic shortcut during periods of disrupted production, possibly accelerated by Caesar's campaigns pushing through northern Gaul after 58 BC. DT#2562 is documented but specimens are infrequent in trade, the Durocasses having struck in comparatively small volume relative to neighboring peoples such as the Carnutes.