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Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni Ratham Dotty Wreath
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 50 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised wreath motif rendered in the Celtic abstract tradition, composed of curved leaf forms and crescentic elements arranged across the flan. Numerous pellets are interspersed among and around the leaf elements, serving as decorative fillers throughout the field. The design is deeply struck in high relief, characteristic of the Atrebatic quarter stater series. No inscription or legend is present. The overall composition is dynamic and non-naturalistic, reflecting the La Tène artistic style. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Atrebates and Regini occupied a territory roughly corresponding to modern Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire — a region with documented Continental Belgic connections that almost certainly account for the gold coinage tradition itself, derived from imported Macedonian staters circulating through Gaul. By the mid-first century BC, these fractional issues were already highly abstracted derivatives of their prototypes, the design having passed through so many generations of Celtic reinterpretation that the original Hellenistic imagery had dissolved entirely into pattern. The "Dotty Wreath" designation is a modern typological convenience, not an ancient one.