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Bronze Core Stater South Ferriby Contemporary Counterfeit
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 45 BC - 10 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Highly abstracted and schematised head of Apollo facing right, rendered in the Celtic curvilinear tradition. The hair is depicted as a wreath with leaves turned inward, accompanied by a cloak and flanking crescent ornaments. A prominent spike projects from the design, bearing a single crescent; the terminal of the spike may be bent to form a distinctive two-pronged hook. The overall style is characteristic of late Iron Age British coinage, with naturalistic Hellenistic prototypes reduced to bold, abstract geometric forms. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Contemporary counterfeits of South Ferriby staters were produced with bronze cores — sometimes with traces of silver plating — by forgers working within or near Corieltauvian territory during the late Iron Age. These were not crude forgeries made far from circulation; the die work frequently mirrors official issues closely enough that detection required physical testing rather than visual inspection. The South Ferriby type itself was already a debased derivative of earlier Gaulish prototypes, which means the "official" coin and its counterfeit existed on a continuum of debasement rather than as clean opposites.