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Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni Aldingbourne Annulets
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 58 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | A vertical row of three concentric ringed pellets arranged centrally within the plain gold field, each pellet enclosed by a raised beaded annulet ring. The central pellet is slightly larger and more prominently beaded than those above and below, lending a structured, hierarchical composition to the design. The surrounding field is otherwise blank, characteristic of the abstract geometric style of late Iron Age British Celtic coinage. The flan is irregularly rounded, with the device positioned slightly toward the right of centre. |
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| Mintage | ND (65 BC - 58 BC) |
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The Atrebates occupied a territory stretching across modern Hampshire, West Sussex, and Berkshire, and their coinage tradition derived ultimately from Macedonian gold staters that circulated into Gaul through trade and mercenary payment. By the time fractional denominations like this quarter stater were struck, the original Hellenistic prototype had been abstracted through generations of copying until only geometric echoes remained. The Aldingbourne find-spot in West Sussex places this type squarely within the southern Atrebatic heartland.
ABC 542 is distinguished by its annulet field decoration — a minor but diagnostically useful detail for attributing die groups within what is otherwise a visually fluid coinage tradition.