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Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni Phallic Geometric
| Emittent | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Jahr | 65 BC - 58 BC |
| Typ | Standard circulation coin |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Uninscribed convex surface exhibiting a plain, unmarked gold field with no deliberate iconographic design. The flan is irregularly shaped with a slightly lobate perimeter, characteristic of hand-struck Celtic quarter staters of this period. The surface displays a smooth, domed profile consistent with the upper die face, with no discernible device or legend. The absence of decorative motifs on this face is typical of the type, which concentrates its artistic programme entirely on the reverse. |
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| Reversbeschreibung | The reverse presents a boldly executed abstract geometric composition in high relief, centrally dominated by a stylised phallic device flanked by a complex arrangement of rectilinear and angular forms. To the upper left, a fan or solar-rayed motif radiates diagonally across the field, abutting a prominent domed or helmet-shaped projection beneath which two triangular elements suggest a schematised face or torque. The remainder of the field is occupied by a cruciform grid of raised bars forming rectangular and square compartments, with a downward-pointing triangle in the lower right quadrant. The overall design is entirely aniconic and non-inscribed, representing a highly abstracted Celtic geometric vocabulary derived ultimately from Macedonian stater prototypes. |
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The Atrebates connection to Gaul is direct — the tribe shared its name and likely its ruling lineage with the Atrebates of the Belgic region, and Caesar's campaigns against the Gallic Atrebates beginning in 57 BC almost certainly disrupted the cross-channel networks through which coin types and minting conventions traveled. This issue likely predates that disruption, placing it in a window when contact between British and continental workshops was still fluid.
The phallic geometric classification reflects a die-cutting tradition in which abstract forms derived from earlier Gallo-Belgic prototypes had been reduced through successive copying to near-unrecognizable arrangements — the phallic element a numismatists' convention for identifying a specific degraded motif, not a deliberate iconographic choice by the issuing authority.