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Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni Annulets
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 58 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Highly stylised disjointed horse facing right, rendered in the characteristic Celtic abstract manner with the body broken into component decorative elements. Above the horse appears a floral or solar symbol composed of radiating pellets and curved lines, interpreted as a stylised sun motif. Below the horse is a prominent double or triple concentric ring motif, and a ringpole device is depicted before the horse. Additional annulets and pellets are scattered throughout the field, all consistent with the Regni coinage type catalogued under ABC 560. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Atrebates were among the most commercially active tribes in pre-Roman southern Britain, with strong cross-Channel ties to their continental counterparts in Belgic Gaul. This fractional denomination would have circulated in high-value transactions — land, cattle, mercenary payment — rather than everyday exchange, which is precisely why so many survivors show minimal wear despite two millennia of intervening history. The annulet decoration places this firmly within a regional typological group that helped numismatists map tribal boundaries before documentary evidence existed to do the same job.