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Gold 1/4 Stater Lindsey Scyphate S-Type

Issuer Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain)
Year 45 BC - 10 BC
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Value 1/4 Stater
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Obverse description Highly abstracted Celtic rendering of a boar, reduced to an intricate mass of curved lines, ridges, and incised dashes across the convex field. The animal form is entirely dissolved into La Tène decorative convention, with no naturalistic anatomical detail surviving. A raised nodular boss occupies the approximate centre, around which radiating and interlocking linear elements suggest the outline of the creature. The flan exhibits the characteristic scyphate (cup-shaped) profile of the Lindsey series, with an irregular beaded border at the rim.
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Reverse description The concave reverse displays a prominent S-shaped or reversed-S sinuous motif rendered in bold raised relief, constituting the defining typological feature of this issue. The S-form is flanked and surrounded by multiple raised pellets of varying sizes distributed across the field, along with concentric ring-and-pellet ornaments characteristic of Corieltauvian die-cutting. Additional curvilinear elements fill the remaining field in a typically abstract La Tène decorative scheme. The irregular beaded border follows the scyphate flan edge.
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Mintage ND (45 BC - 10 BC)
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