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Gold 1/4 Stater - Belgae Curdridge Triad
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 50 BC - 40 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Stylised Abstract design depicting a beaded horizontal line dividing two schematic human or animal figures within a boat-shaped frame, evoking the so-called 'three men in a boat' or 'wolf and twins' iconographic tradition of Late Iron Age Celtic coinage. An S-curve or S-shaped scroll motif appears to the right of the central composition. The design is executed in the highly abstracted curvilinear style characteristic of British Celtic quarter staters of this period, with the original classical prototypes reduced to near-geometric forms. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The "Curdridge Triad" takes its name from the Hampshire findspot where a cluster of these diminutive quarter staters came to light, a pattern common to Atrebatic issues whose distribution hugs the territory between the Thames and the South Downs. Sills 317 sits within a typological sequence tied to the final decades before the Roman reorganization of southern Britain, when Atrebatic tribal coinage was still operating as a genuinely autonomous monetary system rather than a Roman provincial imitation.
At 1.2 g, these fractions were probably used for small-scale transactions or tribute payments — the full stater being too valuable for everyday exchange in a pre-conquest agricultural economy.