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Gold 1/4 Stater - Belgae Winchester Sun and Moons
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Value | 1/4 Stater |
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| Reverse description | Stylised Celtic horse advancing to the left, its body rendered in the highly abstracted manner typical of Iron Age British coinage, with exaggerated limbs and decorative pellet ornaments suggesting musculature. A solar disc or rayed motif occupies the upper field above the horse's back. Below the horse, a prominently rendered six-spoked wheel fills the lower field, serving as a well-known Celtic solar and religious symbol. The surrounding field is animated with loose pellets, curvilinear tendrils, and ancillary decorative elements. No inscription or legend is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
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The Atrebates occupied a territory centered on modern Hampshire and Berkshire, with Winchester sitting at the heart of their distribution zone for coinage of this type. Their tribal identity was directly shaped by continental Belgic migrations, and this quarter stater series belongs to a moment when cross-Channel political ties were still active enough to influence local coin design traditions — Caesar's campaigns in Gaul between 58 and 50 BC disrupted those networks permanently.
ABC 800 is among the lighter fractional issues in the series, consistent with a gradual debasement trend visible across late Iron Age British gold during this precise decade.