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Gold 1/4 Stater - Addedomaros Wheel
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 45 BC - 25 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Abstracted Celtic design occupying the full flan, featuring a highly stylised cruciform or S-scroll motif rendered in the characteristic Late Iron Age insular style. The central field displays interlocking curved elements suggestive of a degraded wreath or disjointed horse prototype, executed in low relief with pellet and annulet detailing typical of Trinovantian coinage. The design is set against a plain, lightly granular field, with the overall composition showing the abstract geometric reduction common to British quarter staters of this period. The irregular flan edges reflect hand-struck production on a small cast blank. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse or animal figure prances rightward across the central field, rendered in the abstract Celtic idiom with exaggerated limbs and a pellet-ornamented body. Above and to the upper right appears a multi-spoked wheel motif — the defining iconographic element of the Addedomaros Wheel type — flanked by pellets and annulets arranged around the periphery. The field is further decorated with crescentic and ring ornaments in a busy but organised composition characteristic of Trinovantian gold coinage. The reverse displays notably higher relief than the obverse, with crisp detail preserved across the flan. No inscription is present on this quarter stater denomination; the name ADDEDOMAROS appears in the lettered form on associated stater issues. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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