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Gold 1/4 Stater Eye Star
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 40 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised, anepigraphic design characteristic of late Iron Age Celtic coinage of southern Britain. The field is dominated by a prominent almond-shaped eye motif rendered in relief, encircled by a raised ring, occupying the right-centre of the flan. The surrounding field is filled with a scattered arrangement of pellets, crescents, and irregular raised bosses, representing the abstract dissolution of an earlier Hellenistic head prototype. The entire composition is executed in a freely flowing, non-representational Celtic style with no inscriptions or border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Atrebates occupied territory straddling what is now Hampshire and West Sussex, and their coinage developed under direct Gaulish influence — the tribe itself had migrated from Belgic Gaul, a movement likely accelerated by Caesar's campaigns of 58–51 BC. This quarter stater type, classified by John Sills as issue 180, belongs to a formative phase of British Celtic coinage when weight standards were still stabilizing and regional die-cutting traditions were only beginning to diverge from their continental prototypes.
The "Eye Star" designation is a modern typological convenience used to group dies sharing specific abstract features, not a contemporary name.