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Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni Antler Triple Line
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 50 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Plain convex field exhibiting three horizontal parallel lines traversing the flan from left to right, each line flanked by rows of raised pellets or bosses, creating a triple-band antler or ribbed design. The composition is entirely abstract and anepigraphic, consistent with the highly stylised Celtic decorative tradition. The flan is slightly convex and irregularly shaped, characteristic of hand-struck Celtic coinage of the late first century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Atrebates maintained close ties with their continental namesakes in Gaul, and the iconographic conventions on their earliest uninscribed gold coinage almost certainly arrived via the same cross-Channel networks that moved tin, iron, and slaves. Quarter staters like this one functioned in a world before coined money had fully displaced other exchange media in Britain — they circulated alongside iron currency bars and may have served specific transactional roles that larger denominations could not.
Sills 185 is among the more precisely documented varieties in this uninscribed series, distinguishing it from the broader Cheriton and White Horse groups by specific pellet and line arrangements that reflect regional die-cutting traditions rather than aesthetic choice.