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1/4 Gold Stater with plant on head Class V
| Issuer | Gaul Veneti |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | A biga driven to the right, depicted in the highly stylised Celtic idiom, drawn by a human-headed horse with exaggerated curvilinear body and limbs. Beneath the horses and chariot, a winged figure lies prostrate to the right along the ground line, likely derived from a Victory or spirit figure found in earlier Hellenistic prototypes. The composition fills the flan with typical La Tène decorative energy, with pellets and abstract forms occupying the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 100 BC) |
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The Veneti occupied the Atlantic coast of Armorica — roughly modern-day Brittany — and controlled the tin trade routes between Britain and the Mediterranean world. Caesar's destruction of their fleet in 56 BC effectively ended their political independence, making coins struck before that campaign the last material evidence of an autonomous Venetic monetary tradition. Class V quarter staters are distinguished from earlier Venetic issues by progressive abstraction in the die work, a regional trend that accelerated sharply in the late second century.