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Gold 1/4 Stater Clacton Standing Horse
| Issuer | Trinovantes tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 45 BC - 40 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Reverse description | Small stylised horse standing right, rendered in the characteristic abstract Celtic manner of the Clacton type. A pellet arc issues from the rump, and numerous individual pellets are distributed across the field. The exergue is decorated with a row of triangular ornaments, contributing to the dense geometric composition typical of British Iron Age coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Trinovantes, based in what is now Essex and Suffolk, were among the most politically significant tribes in late pre-Roman Britain — their territory controlled key trading routes across the Thames estuary, and Caesar himself named them as a tribe that had sought his protection against Catuvellauni aggression during his 55 BC expedition. This quarter stater belongs to the Clacton type, a regional classification tied to a hoard found in Essex, and reflects the fragmentation of Gaulish coinage prototypes into increasingly abstract native designs over successive generations of copying.
Sills 410 and 411 distinguish two closely related die groups within this type.