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Gold 1/4 Stater Mossop Mystery
| Emisor | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
|---|---|
| Año | 15 BC - 20 AD |
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| Valor | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Moneda | Stater |
| Composición | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
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| Diámetro | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Grosor | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Forma | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Técnica | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Orientación | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
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| En circulación hasta | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Referencia(s) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Descripción del anverso | Highly stylised abstract design executed in the Late Celtic tradition, featuring a pair of back-to-back crescents prominently positioned at the centre of the flan. The crescents are surrounded by an intricate wreath-like pattern composed of curvilinear elements, pellets, and scrolling motifs radiating outward toward the irregular flan edge. The overall composition reflects the characteristic La Tène artistic vocabulary of the Iceni, in which naturalistic forms have been progressively dissolved into decorative geometric abstraction. No inscription or legend is present. The field displays the characteristic rough, uneven surface typical of hammered Celtic gold coinage. |
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| Escritura del anverso | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Leyenda del anverso | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Descripción del reverso | A stylised horse facing left occupies the central field, rendered in the characteristic schematic manner of Icenian Celtic coinage, with notably prominent, elongated ears clearly distinguishing this type. A cross or series of cross-shaped pellet groups appears above the horse's back, serving as a key diagnostic element of this variety. Scattered pellets and small ornamental devices are distributed across the field in typical Icenian fashion. The limbs and body of the horse are depicted in a simplified, abstracted manner consistent with the Late Iron Age artistic tradition of eastern Britain. No inscription or legend is present. |
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| Casa de moneda | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
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The "Mossop Mystery" designation comes from R.H. Mossop's foundational 1970 study of Iceni coinage, in which this type was isolated as an anomaly — its die relationships and distribution patterns didn't align cleanly with the broader Iceni sequence. The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, and their coinage evolved through the late Iron Age largely without Roman interference until the tribe came under client-kingdom arrangements following Claudius's invasion of 43 AD.
At roughly 0.9g, these quarter staters circulated as fractional currency within a gift-exchange and tribute economy, not a market one. The findspot record remains concentrated in Norfolk.