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Gold 1/4 Stater Corded Crescents
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 50 BC |
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| Weight | 0.88 g |
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| Obverse description | Abstract Celtic design featuring two enlarged, back-to-back corded crescents, each exhibiting a bold corded inner arc and a plain linear outer arc, arranged to form a wreath-cross composition within the field. Double annulets serve as terminations at the upper and lower junctions of the wreath cross, flanked by three pellet lines, imparting a symmetrical, decorative quality characteristic of Late Iron Age British coinage. The overall design reflects the highly stylized, non-figurative artistic tradition of the Atrebatic series. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Atrebates were almost certainly continental immigrants, their aristocracy crossing from Belgic Gaul — probably following Julius Caesar's campaigns — and bringing with them a coin-using economy that was still novel in much of Britain. Quarter staters like this one were the practical denomination of that system, small enough for regular elite exchange but still struck in gold, marking the transaction as serious. The corded crescent design belongs to a specifically British stylistic development, diverging sharply from the Gallo-Belgic prototypes that inspired the series.