Catalog
1/4 Stater with lyre and rowel
| Issuer | Riedones |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Diameter | 13 mm |
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| Obverse description | Stylized male head facing right, rendered in the characteristic La Tène Celtic artistic tradition. The hair is elaborately depicted as a mass of flowing curved locks and spiral volutes radiating across the field, dissolving the naturalistic prototype into abstract decorative elements. Facial features, including a pronounced eye, nose, and chin, remain discernible amid the highly stylized treatment. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, with no legend or inscription present. The overall design reflects the progressive abstraction of the Hellenistic portrait prototype common among Armorican Celtic coinages. |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 100 BC) |
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The Riedones were a Gaulish tribe occupying the territory around modern Rennes in Armorica, and their coinage belongs to the broader Armorican gold tradition that flourished before Caesar's campaigns effectively ended indigenous minting in the region. This quarter stater is unassigned in both Latour and Delestrée-Tache, placing it outside the standard type series — either a genuinely rare variety or a piece not yet fully integrated into the scholarly literature at time of cataloging.
Armorican fractional gold is notoriously difficult to attribute with precision given the volume of regional die studies still in progress.