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1/4 Stater Kidney Head
| Issuer | Morini (Gallia Belgica) |
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| Year | 75 BC - 55 BC |
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| Diameter | 10 mm |
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| Obverse description | Uniface obverse consisting of a plain, convex, uninscribed field with no design elements. The surface is entirely devoid of imagery or legend, presenting a smooth, slightly domed flan typical of Celtic quarter-stater coinage of the Morini tribe. No exergue, no inscription, and no decorative motifs are present. |
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| Reverse description | Highly stylized and deeply abstracted anthropomorphic head facing left, rendered in the characteristic late Celtic degenerate tradition. The cranium is depicted in a distinctive kidney or bean shape, with a prominent rounded protrusion indicating the ear or hair mass at upper right and a lobed lower section suggesting the chin and jaw. The facial features are reduced to schematic relief forms with no legible details, consistent with the advanced stylistic degeneration of Hellenistic prototypes seen in Belgic coinage of the first century BC. The field is otherwise plain, with no legend or additional decorative elements. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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