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Gold 1/4 Stater - Belgae Danebury Torc
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Weight | 1.44 g |
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| Reverse description | Stylised Celtic horse prancing to the right, rendered in characteristic La Tène abstraction with a distinctive double mane — the outer strand plain and the inner strand cabled or beaded in texture. A torc or knobbed crescent device, referencing a neck torc ornament, is placed above the horse. A ringed pellet appears below the horse's body, and an additional ring motif is situated beneath the tail. The field is otherwise plain, and the design bears no inscription, consistent with the uninscribed coinage of the Atrebates and Regini in the mid-first century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Danebury Torc type takes its name from the torc hoard discovered near Danebury hillfort in Hampshire — a site that served as a major tribal center for centuries before Roman contact. These quarter staters circulated among the Atrebates during the period of Caesar's Gallic campaigns and the two Roman expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC, when cross-Channel trade and political pressure were actively reshaping tribal coin production in the southeast.
ABC 821 is among the smaller fractional gold issues of the period, struck at a weight standard already declining from earlier Gallo-Belgic imports as native moneyers adapted Continental prototypes across generations of copying.