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Gold 1/4 Stater - East Wiltshire Savernake Wheel
| Issuer | Dobunni tribe (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 | A prominent central pellet-in-annulet motif occupies the centre of the flan, surrounded by four curved arms radiating outward to form a distinctive spoked wheel or cross pattern — the defining 'Savernake Wheel' type. The quadrants between the arms are filled with pellets, crescents, and further annulet devices arranged symmetrically, all executed in bold hammered relief. The entire composition is uninscribed and framed by the irregular edge of the small flan, consistent with the artistic conventions of Late Iron Age Celtic coinage of the Dobunni tribal territory. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Dobunni occupied the Cotswolds and surrounding territory, and their coinage emerged partly in response to sustained contact with Gaulish tribes whose own stater traditions were already well-established by the mid-first century BC. Caesar's two expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC disrupted existing tribal exchange networks considerably, and coins of this type were likely circulating at precisely that moment of political stress. The Savernake designation places the die tradition within the eastern reaches of Dobunni territory, toward the boundary with Atrebatic influence.