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Gold 1/4 Stater Bearded Head
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 40 BC |
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| Weight | 1.36 g |
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| Obverse description | Highly devolved and abstracted Celtic head derived ultimately from Classical prototypes, depicted wearing a stylised wreath rendered as a series of curved lines and pellets. The hair above the crown is represented by schematic strokes, while shallow crescent motifs and a distinctive three-pronged spike element appear in the field, characteristic of the late Iron Age Atrebatic coinage tradition. No legend or inscription is present; the design is entirely anepigraphic and executed in the plastic, curvilinear Celtic artistic idiom. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Atrebates occupied territory across what is now Hampshire and West Sussex, and their coinage tradition derives ultimately from Macedonian gold staters that filtered into Britain through Gaulish intermediaries — the abstract style a result of generations of copying without direct access to the originals. By the mid-first century BC, the tribe was navigating increasingly direct pressure from Caesar's Gallic campaigns, which disrupted cross-channel trade networks the Atrebates had long depended on. Tincommius, who came to power around 25 BC, would later seek formal alliance with Augustus, but these quarter staters predate that diplomatic shift entirely.