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Gold 1/4 Stater Double Snake
| Issuer | Trinovantes tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 45 BC - 40 BC |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Reverse description | A stylised Roman trophy rendered in the Celtic tradition as a schematic palm-tree motif occupies the centre of the field, its trunk divided by a prominent corded or ribbed horizontal line. Flanking the lower portion of the trunk, on either side below the central dividing line, are two serpentine zigzag forms terminating in annulet heads, interpreted as stylised snakes. A ringed pellet is positioned at the base of the trophy trunk, with further ringed pellets at the tips of the two lateral roots. Above the horizontal line, additional annulets and an oval device fill the upper field. No legend is present; the entire composition is executed in the highly abstracted La Tène decorative vocabulary characteristic of Late Iron Age Trinovantian coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (45 BC - 40 BC) |
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