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1/4 Stater Bognor Cogwheel Mane Type
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Weight | 1 g |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised Celtic rendering of a laureate head, derived from a Macedonian prototype, depicted facing right across the flan. The hair is rendered as a series of elongated oval pellets arranged in flowing, fan-like locks radiating outward, creating the characteristic 'cogwheel mane' effect from which the type derives its name. The facial features are dissolved into abstract curvilinear elements — a prominent eye rendered as a raised oval, with sweeping arc motifs representing the brow and jaw. The field is populated with additional pellets and crescent-shaped ornaments in the La Tène decorative tradition, with no legend or inscription present. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised Celtic horse prancing to the left, rendered in the abstract La Tène artistic idiom with a distinctively segmented, bead-like body. Immediately below the horse is the diagnostic cogwheel or sun-wheel motif — a prominent toothed wheel with a central pellet-in-ring, characteristic of the Bognor Cogwheel Mane type and referenced as the defining reverse symbol. A spike or sceptre-like element with pellet attachments appears to the right of the horse, corresponding to the VA 226 variety. Additional ornamental devices including crescents, pellets, and a sinuous ground line occupy the field, with no legend present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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