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Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni QC Corkscrew
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 50 BC |
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| Weight | 1.4 g |
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| Reverse description | A stylised triple-tailed horse advancing to the right, rendered in the highly abstract Celtic manner characteristic of southern British Iron Age coinage. The horse's body is reduced to a series of curvilinear and pellet elements, with three distinct tail extensions splaying prominently behind. Above the horse, a cogwheel or rayed solar symbol is enclosed within a large beaded annulet ring, forming the dominant design element in the upper field. Additional pellets and linear motifs fill the surrounding field. The reverse is entirely anepiographic, consistent with pre-Conquest Atrebatic quarter stater issues of this series. |
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| Mintage | ND (65 BC - 50 BC) |
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The Atrebates entered Britain from Belgic Gaul, bringing coinage traditions derived ultimately from the Macedonian gold staters of Philip II, which had circulated as trade currency across Celtic Europe for generations. By the time this quarter stater was struck, the design had been abstracted through successive copying to the point where the original figurative source is barely traceable — the "corkscrew" designation refers to a specific spiral motif that emerged through this degenerative transmission, not any deliberate artistic choice.
ABC 584 is among the more localized issues, with a distribution pattern suggesting production and use concentrated in the Sussex and Hampshire region before Caesar's Gallic campaigns began disrupting cross-channel trade networks.