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1/4 Gold Stater with anthropomorphic horse and winged figure
| Issuer | Treveri |
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| Year | 100 BC - 50 BC |
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| Value | 1/4 Stater |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylized Celticized head of Apollo facing right, derived from classical Macedonian prototypes. The laureate head is rendered in a bold, abstract La Tène artistic style, with deeply incised hair locks arranged in sweeping parallel ridges and separated by prominent comma-shaped pellets and crescents. The facial features are summarily indicated, with a prominent rounded cheek and eye visible in the lower right of the field. The entire design is characterized by the vigorous, curvilinear ornamentation typical of Belgic coinage of the late second to mid-first century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 50 BC) |
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The Treveri occupied the Moselle valley in what is now Luxembourg and western Germany, and their coinage circulated in a region Rome would not fully control until Caesar's Gallic campaigns of the 58–50 BC period — campaigns that almost certainly disrupted or ended production of issues like this one. Whether this quarter stater served tribute obligations, mercenary payment, or inter-tribal exchange remains genuinely contested among Celtic numismatists.
The typological lineage traces back through successive abstraction from Macedonian gold prototypes, a process spanning generations of Celtic die-cutters who progressively dissolved Greek figural imagery into something almost unrecognizable.