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1/4 Stater bust facing right
| Issuer | Uncertain Gallia Belgica tribes |
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| Year | 125 BC - 100 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A highly abstracted Celticized horse galloping to the right, its body and limbs fragmented into a dynamic arrangement of curvilinear and pellet-form elements characteristic of late La Tène die-cutting. Above the horse, a stylized representation of a charioteer or driver figure is rendered as a series of disconnected geometric and organic shapes. Below the horse, a floral or rosette symbol occupies the lower field, serving as a decorative anchor to the composition. The entire design is uninscribed and executed with bold, confident relief on the irregular hammered flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (125 BC - 100 BC) |
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The quarter stater format in Belgic Gaul emerged as tribes adapted and fragmented the Macedonian gold stater tradition filtering north and west through trade and mercenary contact — Philip II's coinage was the template, progressively abstracted over generations until the original portrait dissolved into the stylized forms characteristic of these issues. Attribution to a specific tribe remains impossible; the reference clustering across Scheers, Van Arsdell, and Delestrée reflects decades of academic disagreement rather than settled scholarship.