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Gold 1/4 Stater Cog and Wheel
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 50 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (65 BC - 50 BC) |
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The Atrebates occupied a territory straddling what is now Hampshire, Berkshire, and Sussex, with strong cross-Channel connections to the Atrebates of Gallia Belgica — likely the same tribal group before Caesar's campaigns fragmented their political world. The "Cog and Wheel" designation refers to a die-cutting tradition, not a design description: these quarter staters were produced by celts whose makers borrowed abstract geometric vocabulary from continental prototypes, progressively distorting the original Macedonian gold stater imagery through generations of copying until the source became unrecognizable.
Sills 246 places this type within a closely studied sequence. The 1.4g weight standard reflects deliberate reduction from earlier quarter stater norms.