Bronze Core Stater South Ferriby Contemporary Counterfeit

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.