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Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni Compton Wheel
| 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 | Stylised and highly abstracted wreath or branch motif rendered in the characteristic Celtic geometric tradition, composed of diagonal hatched lines and undulating wave-like striations radiating from a central point in a wheel-like arrangement. The design occupies the entire field of this small flan, with pellet or globular elements visible amid the flowing linear patterns. The composition reflects the Compton Wheel type, a distinctive artistic convention of the Atrebates-Regini coinage in which the original Macedonian wreath prototype has been progressively transformed into a purely abstract decorative scheme. The irregular flan edges are typical of hammered Celtic coinage of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Compton Wheel type takes its name from the Compton, Hampshire findspot where early examples were recovered, and belongs to the sequence of fractional gold coinage produced by the Atrebates and their southern British neighbours in the decades before Caesar's expeditions of 55 and 54 BC accelerated political consolidation across the region. At this weight, these quarters circulated as genuine transactional currency rather than prestige objects — an important distinction for understanding how Iron Age monetary systems actually functioned in practice.