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| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 58 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (65 BC - 58 BC) |
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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.