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1/4 Stater with lyre and rowel
| Issuer | Riedones |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | A stylized horse galloping left, depicted in the dynamic Celtic manner with exaggerated musculature and elongated limbs. Above the horse's back appears a charioteer or rider figure, reduced to schematic form, alongside a lyre-like or fan-shaped ornamental motif. Beneath the horse, a spoked wheel or rowel is prominently displayed in the lower field, accompanied by scattered pellets or globules. The composition is characteristic of the Armorican Riedones coinage tradition, with no inscription or legend present. |
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| Edge | Plain, irregular |
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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.