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Gold 1/4 Stater Fay's Onion
| Issuer | Trinovantes tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 50 BC - 45 BC |
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| Diameter | 12 mm |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (50 BC - 45 BC) |
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The "Fay's Onion" designation comes from the classification work of Robert Van Arsdell and subsequent researchers who assigned informal names to distinguish closely related Celtic stater fractions — a necessary convention given that tribal coinage of this period carries no inscriptions, no mint signatures, and no dates. The Trinovantes occupied what is now Essex and parts of Suffolk, and their gold coinage was likely produced by specialist craftsmen operating under aristocratic or chieftain patronage rather than any institutional mint. Individual die-cutting was entirely freehand, which means no two specimens are strictly identical.