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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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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Highly abstracted and stylised Celtic design in high relief, depicting a disintegrated laureate head derived from the Macedonian stater prototype, rendered as a complex arrangement of curved lines, pellets, and organic swirling motifs across the flan. The facial elements are barely discernible, dissolved into flowing abstract forms characteristic of Late Iron Age British Celtic coinage. The surface exhibits the bold, undulating relief typical of hammered quarter staters of this series, with no legend or inscription present. |
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| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
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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.